Partner & Community Technical Assistance:
The Montana APPLETREE program provides technical assistance to partners, communities, and citizens to reduce hazardous chemical exposures. Some examples of past technical assistance provided include:
- Citizens needing help interpreting their personal or environmental lab results for lead, arsenic, cadmium
- Citizens with possible exposures to arsenic, meth lab wastes, and septic wastes
- Owners/operators of wells exceeding arsenic, nitrates, lead, and trihalomethanes standards
- Administrative Rules of Montana (ARM)-drafters requesting information on testing for lead in school drinking water
- State Officials with concerns about asbestos exposures in a state-owned building
- The Army National Guard for potential PFAS exposures in private well water
- Local Health Department Nurses for lead poisoning prevention information
The Montana APPLETREE program also partners with DPHHS cancer epidemiologists to provide toxicology expertise in cancer analyses. Past cancer cluster investigations include:
- Concern about childhood cancer
- Concern about tetrachloroethylene (PCE) site plume
- Concern about cancer rates in young people
