VILLAGE OF MANCHESTER, Mich. (WXYZ) — Samantha Tank met up with two nurses from the Washtenaw County Well being Division outdoors their cell unit the place they have been providing free lead testing Friday.
Tank held her six-month-old son, Brooks, as one of many nurses made slightly prick on the underside of his tiny toes to take a pattern of blood to ship off for testing.
“He is probably not consuming that a lot water at this level however I’m so we simply had some issues,” she stated.
And Tank’s house is considered one of 19 residences within the village the place the faucet water was just lately examined for lead.
At seven of the houses, the lead ranges have been over the “Motion Stage.”
Village officers provided the next on their web site:
The “Motion Stage” just isn’t a health-based normal, however it’s a stage that triggers extra actions together with, however not restricted to, elevated investigative sampling of water high quality and academic outreach to clients in accordance with the Michigan Secure Ingesting Water Act. The purpose for lead in consuming water is 0 ppb; there isn’t a protected stage of lead within the blood.
Village officers stated they’ve about 800 houses receiving their municipal water provide that comes from three wells. And whereas a lot of the water strains feeding into neighborhoods and to houses are copper and plastic, some are nonetheless lead and galvanized strains.
Within the coming weeks, a number of the water provide strains to the houses the place excessive ranges of lead have been detected might be modified over to plastic and copper.
Different households the place lead was nonetheless detected in the course of the current checks might be inspired to make use of lead-reducing filters till the village replaces the provision strains.
For the lead pipes that run from the road to a house, the village will cowl the price of the pipe alternative.
For those who do have a lead water line, village officers are urging you to “clear your aerators and may flush water from the pipes for at the very least 5 minutes by operating taps, having a shower, washing dishes, or doing a load of laundry.”
When you have questions or issues about your kid’s publicity to steer, please contact your pediatrician for a lead blood stage check. For questions on youngsters’s publicity to steer, please contact Jane Nickert, Public Well being Nursing Director, at 734-544-9735.
You may as well discover extra info on the Village’s web site: https://vil-manchester.org/lead-and-copper-testing-update/
