Hi all…So the Flint lead contamination event has been making headlines for a few months now. What do we know? I’ve accessed some EXCEL spreadsheets which provide some interesting raw lead data (links below). Adjacent homes can have values of 0 µg/L and 5,000 µg/L! It would be difficult for the City to even say one area may be less impacted than another.

  • Flint Residential Testing Report Sorted by Address – results through January 31, 2016 (Now results through to Feb 4, 2016)
  • Flint Residential Testing Report Sorted by Lead Concentration – results through January 31, 2016
  • Flint Residential Testing Report – results through January 31, 2016 (from Sept 25, 2015 to present)

The USEPA has posted information for Flint residents and others to see. For example:

  • EPA Safe Drinking Water Act Emergency Order http://www.epa.gov/flint/epa-safe-drinking-water-act-emergency-order18 pages (good event chronology)
  • USEPA Response to City of Flint: http://www.epa.gov/flint/epa-response-city-flint
  • USEPA advice to Flint residents: http://www.epa.gov/flint/advice-flint-residents
  • City of Flint Response to EPA Emergency Order, of January 22, 2016 http://www.epa.gov/flint/city-flint-response-epa-emergency-order
  • USEPA-Flint residents-Information on drinking water: http://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-01/documents/flintflyerjan29.pdf

Bill