Partner & Community Technical Assistance:
The MT 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 MT APPLETREE program also conducts cancer analyses for perceived clusters. Past cancer cluster investigations include:
- Concern about childhood cancer
- Concern about tetrachloroethylene (PCE) site plume
- Concern about cancer rates in young people
