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The Flint water crisis is still a crisis, tests show. Chad Livengood of The Detroit News writes:
Residential water testing of lead contamination in nearly 10,000 Flint homes since September has found 703 homes with lead levels exceeding the federal safety standard, according to a new state report.
The number of Flint homes with lead levels exceeding the 15 parts per billion federal standard amount to 7 percent of the 9,939 Flint homes tested since Sept. 3.
But among those tested, 582 had lead levels between 15 and 100 parts per billion, 33 homes had levels between 101 and 149 parts per billion and the plumbing of 88 homes had lead levels ranging from 150 to 10,467 parts per billion, according to the report. Seventeen homes had lead levels exceeding 1,000 parts per billion, according to test results posted Tuesday on the state’s Flint water crisis website.
The news comes as Mayor Karen Weaver says her administration intends to begin training next week for replacing lead water service lines, The News adds.
