Tasmania's Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has announced it will carry out extensive monitoring of lead dust deposit rates in residential areas near two major industrial facilities.

The monitoring will include 45 sites covering the Hobart suburb of Lutana and the city's eastern shore, related to the Nyrstar zinc smelter, starting later this month.

It will also monitor lead dust in the town of Rosebery, near the MMG mine, starting later this year.

The sites are the largest industrial emitters of lead to air in Tasmania.

The last studies were in 2009 and focused on lead in soil, including health monitoring of children.

The 2009 studies found no risk to human health.

EPA chief executive Catherine Murdoch said the decision to carry out "the most spatially extensive monitoring prog

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