Quote Originally Posted by rookie View Post
I'm really going to go out on a limb here and probably even going to cut the branch off behind me "BUT" if all of these gazillion lbs of lead that have been removed from the earth were returned to the earth, Who do you think would start yelling the loudest?
Lead put back on the earth like this?
The quantity of lead shot, nylon fishing line and other litter discarded at a coarse fishing lake. (lead not lost while fishing, but while trying to put it on the line?)

Or of course if you put it in water it starts to "leach"
Lead emissions from lost fishing sinkers

There is a good summary in this Washington State document: http://198.238.33.67/fish/papers/lea.../fpt_06-13.pdf

Buried in a dry (or at least non acidic) pit... no problem