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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
NYC Optimistic About Tap Water Once Again
Whether you viewed the glass as half full or half empty, the water in the glass contained unsafe levels of lead according to the criteria set forth in the Federal Safe Water Drinking Act...
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Columbia County Exceeds Par
If 15 parts per billion (ppb) is par, then Columbia County just played a bogie round. Columbia County (Georgia), just miles from Augusta and its' famed Master's Golf Tournament, is asking for a mulligan...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
National Lead Free Bill Goes to the President
It looks like the "Land of the Free" will soon become the "Land of the Lead Free" pending a single but very important signature...
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Wednesday, December 08, 2010
A Real Stocking Stuffer...Elevated D.C. Lead Issues Persist
In the spirit of the holiday season, the story that keeps on giving just dropped another lump of coal in the stockings of thousands of residential homes in the District of Columbia...
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Friday, December 03, 2010
Drinking Fountains "Kaput" at Texas Community College
Out of commission? Out of order? Finished? Done for? How about "Kaput!". That's the bold-faced declaration printed across a sheet of white, 8-1/2" x 11" paper taped to the side of a Austin Community College drinking fountain...
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Big Apple With Big Problems?
Granted, the problems facing New York City's water supply may be more PR related than a real health and safety risk, but elevated lead levels discovered in 14% of the buildings tested have put Gotham's faithful on "lead" alert...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Bangor Perplexed Over High Lead Levels
The origins of elevated lead levels found in the Bangor, Maine water supply appear to have water district officials stumped...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
MassDEP Website Casts Lead Free Vote
In the spirit of the current election cycle, and following recent legislative victories in California and Vermont, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) website has begun campaigning for Lead Free materials...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Senate Bill Emerges to Reduce Lead in Drinking Water
In another strong move to nationalize California and Vermont's Lead Free plumbing legislation, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and five co-sponsors have introduced Senate Bill S.3874...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
House Passes National Lead Legislation
The U.S. House of Representatives moved one step closer to making California's lead free plumbing law a national reality...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Good News, Bad News for Galesburg Water
When presented with a choice, most people opt for the bad news first, so here it is. Lead is still present in the water of 10 homes (60 were sampled) in Galesburg, Illinois, a small town located 200 miles southwest of Chicago...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Lead Free Movement Going National?
"It's time we protect the rest of the country." Bold words from Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, a democrat from the state of California, and member of the House subcommittee...
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Saskatoon Freezes Out Lead Pipes
Saskatoon has given the "cold shoulder" to lead pipes connecting local residences to the municipal water supply.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
EPA Targets 4 New Chemicals...59,910 to Go
A New York Times article published last December found that 20% of U.S. water treatment centers were in violation of the Safe Water Drinking Act.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Small Town America Not Exempt from Lead Issues
There's no debating Galesburg has struggled with elevated lead levels over recent years. The small town of 35,000 with a rich history, located in western Illinois...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
IBM Reboots: Retest for Lead at Research Park Underway
Water faucets and fountains in four buildings at IBM's Hudson Valley Research Park in East Fishkill, NY were found to have elevated levels of lead, according to...
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Monday, January 18, 2010
ASSE Joins UL, NSF, Others with Lead Certification Program
The American Society of Sanitary Engineering (ASSE) has added its name to the list or certifying bodies for the new low lead requirements in California and Vermont...
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Elevated Lead Levels Found in NJ
Don't tell Tony Soprano but elevated levels of lead were identified in local drinking water by the Passaic Valley Water Commission (PVWC)...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Plumbers Warn Lead Free Will Cost You
It's been less than a week and California plumbers and wholesalers are feeling the impact of the state's new lead free potable water laws: higher fitting costs...
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Monday, January 04, 2010
UL and WQA Provide More Options for Lead Free Certification
Looks like NSF is no longer the only game in town for product certification to California and Vermont's new low lead laws that go into effect January 1, 2010...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Shelter Island School Expels Foreign Made Faucets
Faucets on two sinks in a Suffolk County high school where lead levels exceeded the EPA's legal limit are being replaced by "American-made" products...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Boilermakers Steamed Over Lead Notice Delay
Purdue University students and faculty were not pleased to learn school officials took four weeks to alert the campus of high levels of lead found in the school's drinking water system...
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Monday, October 05, 2009
AP Study Reveals Schools Failing Clean Water Test
Over 2,200 schools, representing 100 school districts, covering all 50 states were given failing grades for violating the Safe Drinking Water Act...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
$200M Suit Filed in D.C. Over Lead Contamination
In an article posted on this site little more than a week ago (see "...Children in D.C. at Risk?"), we concluded civil litigation may be in the offing concerning elevated levels of lead in D.C. water, considering this is a town famous for...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Did Chloramine Additives put 42,000 Children in D.C. at Risk?
High emotion in our nation's capital is hardly worth reporting. We read about it every day. But a new drama has emerged that doesn't involve bickering between democrats and republicans, and it isn't a debate about the best way to stimulate...
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Monday, February 02, 2009
L.A. Unified School District Serious About Getting the Lead Out
80 school district employees took to the streets on a four-month test taking expedition, with the goal of retrieving water samples at the 34,000 faucets and drinking fountains
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