The CIty of Riverview announced Tuesday that four of the 30 homes with lead service lines returned tests showing what the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy deems "action level" lead levels. The agency said theirs isn't a health-based standard, but added "the goal for lead ...
According to the advisory, the lead 90th percentile for the city's tested water supply is 18 parts per billion (ppb), which exceeds the Action Level of 15 ppb after four of the tested homes had levels above 15 ppb. This led to the city issuing an Action Level exceedence advisory...
The EPA sites the lead action level of 15 parts per billion in drinking water. Therefore, if a sample contains a concentration at or above this level, we will share this information with the school staff so that they can address the problem and make the necessary changes to reduce the ...
The EPA set an action level of 15 parts of lead per billion parts water, but allowed 10% of samples to be above that threshold. Utilities that tested above that could be forced to replace their pipes. The rules have significantly reduced lead in ...
Thestudy released Wednesdaysays the toxic metal was found more often in samples taken from homes in public housing developments in the neighborhood, where plumbing issues have historically led to heavy metals contaminating the drinking water. Any level of lead in drinking water is not ...
Following the Flint Water Crisis, many states passed legislation requiring schools to measure and remediate lead in school drinking water. In this study, we present new evidence on the level and distribution of lead in school drinking water by examining the case of New York City, which tested ...
One administrator per center completed a survey and was trained to collect first-draw drinking water samples in their center. Samples were shipped with pre-paid labels for laboratory analysis using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Multilevel logistic regression and Bayesian network analysis ...
Building age was the most important contributing factor for a few reasons. Legislation has been passed over the years to improve the safety of school water. The federal Safe Drinking Water Act Amendment in 1986 required using "lead-free" piping, solder, and flux in buildings. The definition of...
The purpose of the work is to determine how high are the concentrations of lead in drinking water in older Slovenian kindergartens and primary schools and to demonstrate that lead can also migrate from newer materials used for the construction of water distribution networks. To determine the concent...
In two buildings, concentrations in some fountains exceeded the USEPA action level for lead (by up to 12-fold) and for copper (by up to 3.9 fold). One sample was positive for total coliform and Escherichia coli bacteria. Comparison with samples from the local municipal drinking water ...