Post by pavel on Apr 11, 2016 22:28:45 GMT -6
SANTA FE, N.M. — A system that provides drinking water for a Santa Fe hospital is among those in New Mexico where testing has turned up elevated levels of lead.
An Associated Press analysis of data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New Mexico Environment Department found that 20 small water systems across the state have exceeded the federal lead standard at least once in the last five years.
Nationally, nearly 1,400 water systems serving 3.6 million Americans have exceeded the federal standard at least once between Jan. 1, 2013, and Sept. 30, 2015. The affected systems are large and small, public and private, and include 278 that are owned and operated by schools and day care centers in 41 states.
In New Mexico, the systems include St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, elementary schools in Santa Fe and Quemado and the state prison in Roswell. Other private systems that serve neighborhoods in rural areas are also on the list.
Read more: www.abqjournal.com/754724/news/20-nm-water-systems-exceed-federal-lead-standard.html
An Associated Press analysis of data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New Mexico Environment Department found that 20 small water systems across the state have exceeded the federal lead standard at least once in the last five years.
Nationally, nearly 1,400 water systems serving 3.6 million Americans have exceeded the federal standard at least once between Jan. 1, 2013, and Sept. 30, 2015. The affected systems are large and small, public and private, and include 278 that are owned and operated by schools and day care centers in 41 states.
In New Mexico, the systems include St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, elementary schools in Santa Fe and Quemado and the state prison in Roswell. Other private systems that serve neighborhoods in rural areas are also on the list.
Read more: www.abqjournal.com/754724/news/20-nm-water-systems-exceed-federal-lead-standard.html