[Mintwood-place] Washington Post today: Congressional report prompts fear and anger ove r lead in D.C. water

[joanyosh at juno.com]

I'm reposting this article about lead in DC water to remind us of an earlier battle over lead water pipes on Mintwood; to remind us that WASA early on claimed there were no lead pipes in spite of what we residents saw with our own eyes.
For decades, the city and WASA, continue to blame each other and now they can blame the CDC.  
Instead, I hope you have installed water filters of some kind.  If you want to exchange info on brands or methods of installing, please ask or post.

Joanie/Mintwood


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Congressional report prompts fear and anger over lead in D.C. water
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/20/AR2010052005173.html?hpid%3Dnewswell&sub=AR

Friday, May 21, 2010
Federal and local political leaders, D.C. parents and health advocates reacted Thursday with a mixture of anger and fear to news that a federal agency misled them about the harm that lead in the District's water had caused -- and might still be causing. 

The furor came as a House investigative subcommittee released a report showing that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention knowingly used flawed data when telling D.C. residents that their health hadn't been harmed by spikes in lead in the drinking water in 2004. The investigation, the subject of a congressional hearing Thursday, also disclosed new cause for alarm: Internal CDC research shows that an effort to fix the lead problem since 2004 puts residents in 9,100 D.C. homes at much higher risk of lead poisoning. 

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