The mayor's office released an update overnight about the ongoing water problems at the Jacob Riis Houses.
"If someone tells you, 'Whoa, we found arsenic. We're not sure, hold on,' and then you don't hear anything else, that doesn't make any sense," Williams said."NYCHA immediately needs to set up a time where the tenants can sit and ask them questions."
"I voted for him, my community voted for him, so he should be out here," Tenant Association President Daphne Williams said about The city says ongoing tests continue to produce negative results, but residents should still avoid drinking or cooking with the tap water until all testing is complete.We continue to receive encouraging results from water tests at Riis Houses.
We also received new, belated results, late today, from the initial vendor that was found to have provided questionable results, suggesting the possible presence of Legionella bacteria, but we suspect these results are inaccurate. Legionella cannot be spread through drinking water. Additionally, we are actively reviewing our Legionella surveillance data and have found no reported or confirmed cases of Legionella at Riis Houses over the last 12 months.
We have been and will continue to be transparent about the information we receive every day, as the health and safety of residents remain our top priorities. We are continuing to approach the situation with an extreme level of care, and that is why we have flushed the water in the complex and are continuing to wait on additional test results that we initiated with a new vendor. We want to fully analyze all test results before making any recommendations.
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