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From: Wade	10/5/2004 10:05:40 AM
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Safe water? Guess not! story.news.yahoo.com Lead Levels in Water Misrepresented Across U.S. Tue Oct 5, 1:21 AM ET Top Stories - washingtonpost.com By Carol D. Leonnig, Jo Becker and David Nakamura, Washington Post Staff Writers Cities across the country are manipulating the results of tests used to detect lead in water, violating federal law and putting millions of Americans at risk of drinking more of the contaminant than their suppliers are reporting. Some cities, including Philadelphia and Boston, have thrown out tests that show high readings or have avoided testing homes most likely to have lead, records show. In New York City, the nation's largest water provider has for the past three years assured its 9.3 million customers that its water was safe because the lead content fell below federal limits. But the city has withheld from regulators hundreds of test results that would have raised lead levels above the safety standard in two of those years, according to records. ...more...

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