Updated: Monday, 9:46 a.m. -- The Toledo Blade reports that Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins said Monday at a 9:30 press conference lifted the drinking bank on the area's water, saying tests show it is now safe, the Toledo Blade reported.
"Families can return to normal life," Collins said. during a 9:30 a.m. news conference.
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Reported earlier this morning
The water ban affecting 430,000 people has entered its third day in northwest Ohio and parts of southeast Michigan after tests showed some toxins still contaminating Lake Erie, leaving residents to continue scrambling for water for drinking, cooking and bathing, Louis Aguilar writes in The Detroit News.
Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins said early Monday that most of the tests done by state and federal authorities on Sunday showed a positive trend, but that additional testing is necessary.
Collins said he was concerned by some of the results and didn’t want to take any chances.
The suspected culprit of Toledo’s water crisis is an algal bloom, a giant, malodorous toxin that’s caused in part by agricultural pollution and has bedeviled Lake Erie for years.
A recent study by the Ohio government found Lake Erie received the most phosphorous of any of the Great Lakes, about 44 percent of the total of all the lakes. About two-thirds of that phosphorous came from agricultural land, according to the report.
