City of Clio issued the following announcement on Oct 28.
“NOTHING'S REALLY CHANGED but the testing standards,” said Jeff Wallace, village manager for Manchester, where 89 of some 800 households have a lead-containing service line.
The four communities currently in violation of Michigan’s lead-in-water standard are among dozens across the state that have been flagged for high levels of lead since the new rules took effect.
And with hundreds of water systems — from whole towns to small retirement centers — still awaiting their first water test results since Michigan’s rules changed, the list could keep growing.
Heralded as the nation’s strictest at the time, Michigan’s new rules required operators to target homes with known lead pipes or fixtures. Under old rules, operators had more liberty to decide where they pulled samples, which made it less likely they would detect lead risks.
The new rules also require operators to test both the first and fifth liter of water coming out of the tap, making it more likely that samples will uncover lead leaching out of old service lines that deliver water from public water mains into residents’ homes.
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