high lead in Boston area water

[xatalantax]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47845-2004Apr27.html

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loose change...not just 2 cents worth

[sylvarogre.livejournal.com]

does this explain the former upstairs upstarts?

now, I know this is gonna sound naive, but the article says they have replaced more than 2/3rds of lead supply lines... not 100%?!?!
How long have we known lead was bad in drinking water? At least since I've known about drinking water safety. So that was when I joined Cub Scouts in second grade - say '79-'80.

Next it'll come out that DC and Boston,Mass. have only removed 2/3rds of the asbestos from schools.

I think I expect to much of public servants... of course, calling them public servants instead of rulers is a dead giveaway that I actually think the "of/by/for the people" is more than just clever rhetoric designed to fool the unthinking masses.
(sorry for running long... )

[shnells.livejournal.com]

this does not suprise me. we just got a kid with severe lead poisoning in her history and it's terrible how it's affected her function. as for asbestos in the schools, there's much worse than that. i think it very telling that in some of the more crappier schools within the system i work in, 75% of the teachers have some form of cancer. isn't that marvelous?

[bostonista.livejournal.com]

Don't kids get more lead from paint and smog than they do from water?

(On a similar note, people get the majority of their asbestos exposure from brake pad dust, not from asbestos housing materials.)

[atalanta.livejournal.com]

maybe under normal conditions, but maybe not when lead leves in the water are "unacceptably high" .. but I don't know.