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My town's paper ran a scary story about our water, so I pulled 3 years of test reports
When the Gazette-Journal ran that piece about lead pipes in the older part of town, everyone on my street panicked and started buying bottled water. I called the water department and asked for the full testing history instead of trusting the headline, and they emailed me 3 years of reports for free. Turns out our line tested at 1.2 parts per billion, way under the 15 ppb action level, and the one high sample in the story came from a single house with old interior plumbing on the other side of the highway. The reporter never mentioned that part, or that the city already had a pipe replacement plan going back to 2021. Has anyone else just asked their utility for the raw reports when a story like this drops?
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willowr964d ago
Pulling the reports yourself is smart, but a 1.2 ppb reading just means the water was fine the day they tested, not that old lead service lines aren't still sitting in the ground waiting to leach on a bad day. Trusting the utility's own numbers to clear the utility is like asking the fox how the henhouse is doing.
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