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Lead Levels in Water Misrepresented Across U.S.: Utilities Manipulate or Withhold Test Results to Ward Off Regulators

Date: October 5, 2004
Authors: Carol D. Leonnig, Jo Becker and David Nakamura
QUOTE: Cities across the country are manipulating the results of tests used to detect lead in water...Some cities, including Philadelphia and Boston, have thrown out tests that show high readings or have avoided testing homes most likely to have lead...

ABSTRACT: When the quantity of lead in drinking water reaches a certain level, utility companies must act to decrease the lead content. According to the Washington Post, regulators in many American cities are manipulating the results of tests designed to detect lead in drinking water in order to spare utility companies the considerable cost of decreasing lead content. While residents of several cities have expressed alarm at the findings, city and federal regulators claim that there are higher priorities in maintaining a safe water supply than limiting lead levels.

--- Patrick Clark

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