The firm now says its earlier findings of arsenic in tap water at Jacob Riis Houses were 'incorrect' and new testing shows any contamination at trace levels.
RedditResidents of the Jacob Riis public housing complex in the East Village crowd P.S. 34 to air concerns about conflicting reports on water quality in the 19-building community.Residents of the Jacob Riis public housing complex in the East Village crowd P.S. 34 to air concerns about conflicting reports on water quality in the 19-building community.
Environmental Monitoring and Technologies Inc. said in a statement Friday that an investigation showed “any contamination for arsenic” found in the water at the Jacob Riis complex to be well below federal limits for safe drinking. The statement said the firm retracted “all arsenic results” from earlier tests. It also acknowledged that trace levels of arsenic had been introduced in samples from original testing Aug. 26 – as part of testing for silver.the roughly 3,900 residents of Jacob Riis Houses, a 19-building complex overlooking the East River, that unsafe levels of arsenic had been detected in the tap water. Residents have been cautioned against drinking or cooking with the water.
“Needless to say to say, neither NYCHA nor any other city agency will test water through Environmental Monitoring and Technologies any longer, and the city intends to pursue all available legal options on behalf of the residents of Riis Houses,” Fabien Levy, spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams, said in a statement.
Calls to EMT, based in Des Plaines, Ill., were not immediately returned. The city still advises residents not to drink the water, pending the results of further testing city officials said they expect to be released Saturday.
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