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The area allegedly has been without water for years, and recent power outages from the KwaGuqa Substation have had an impact.

This is where the community now relies on to receive proper drinking water.

Residents in KwaGuqa Extensions believe they have been denied the fundamental human right to safe drinking water.

It’s heartbreaking to see elders forced to take to the streets as a result of poor service delivery in the KwaGuqa Extensions, which has turned out to be a frustrating experience.

The ongoing struggle for water and electricity in the KwaGuqa Extensions appears to be the most serious issue in the area, as the current situation affects everyone.

The first and most disastrous impact was on matriculating students, who were supposed to sit for the second paper on mathematics on Monday, November 7, but were unable to do so due to the service delivery strike. “We have children in Grade 12 who are unable to study,” a concerned parent from KwaGuqa, Sibongile Mahlangu explained.

 

Siyabonga Mapua (19), a student at Witbank High, described how difficult it is to study during the dark days. “As a resident of KwaGuqa Extensions, studying is a major issue during these times; we have been without power for weeks. I am forced to study during the day,” Siyabonga lamented.

Members of the community want the municipality to recognize the difficulties they are experiencing.

“We have pensioners who are suffering from chronic illnesses. Their medication should be kept in a refrigerator, but they do not have power. People are dying, and no one is helping us,” Sibongile added.

 

Ms Grammar Lukhele, Chairperson of the Emalahleni Civic Organization (ECO), stated, “The biggest issue we are currently facing is water. We have been without water in our area for years, and the municipality recently informed us that we will be without electricity for 16 weeks.”

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Australia’s best tasting tap water will be decided at this year’s Primex Field Days in Casino.

Winners from each state and territory will go head to head on Saturday for the national title putting interstate rivalries to the test.

Those attending the field days will be asked to taste all the water samples and vote for the one they prefer most.

Last year water from Richmond Valley Council’s Casino Water Treatment Plant was crowned national champion.

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The Assembly Committee on Petitions has asked the district administration and relevant departments to ensure the quality of drinking water supplied through tanker lorries in the district.

The direction was given at the sitting of the committee held in Thiruvananthapuram. Though the district administration had launched the ‘Operation Pure Water’ initiative in 2019 following complaints that contaminated water was supplied through tanker lorries, it had lost steam after the authorities could not ensure a sustained drive against those found violating the norms.

The Assembly Committee led by K.B. Ganesh Kumar has made it clear that the district administration and the Kerala Water Authority should undertake the responsibility of ensuring that quality standards were not diluted. The Motor Vehicles Department must inspect the vehicles to check whether the tanker lorry operators were flouting the norms.

There should be no relaxation in the directive by the committee against supply of contaminated water. Such sources must be closed down and action had to be taken against tanker lorry owners collecting water from such points. Mr. Ganesh Kumar suggested that the KWA could increase the number of hydrants supplying drinking water through the tanker lorries. The tanker lorry operators must issue the receipt for the payment made by the consumers without fail, he said.

The KWA has nearly 40 hydrants under its various supply offices in the district. There are around 15 hydrants under the Aluva zone. Of this, 10 hydrants are available at the treatment plant in Aluva. The officials of the authority said the hydrants at the Aluva plant remained busy in view of the steady rush of tanker lorries while the demand at the Chowara and Perumbavoor supply points had dipped, as tanker operators drew water from private sources.

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The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service Isa Jere  Idris has directed the Comptroller of Immigration Service Bayelsa State James Sunday to visit the IDP Camp and donate drinking water to the Internally Displaced Persons for them to have clean drinking water both adults and children.     

The directive was carried out on Tuesday at OX- BOW LAKE IDP camp where thousands of IDPs families were camped by the Bayelsa State Government for temporary shelter, the Flood which had rendered several families homeless.

According to the NIS, the gesture from the Comptroller General is a sign of goodwill from the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service Isa Jere Idris to the Officers and Men of the Bayelsa Command and also directed that the affected 64 personnel of the service affected by the flood be taken into consideration.

A team of experts are to visit Bayelsa Command from the service headquarters, Abuja to access the state of the command flooded to enable the Comptroller General take an inform decision after reporting back.   

The Comptroller of Immigration Service Bayelsa state, James Sunday, who expressed appreciation to   the leadership of the service for directing at an appropriate time evacuation of all service movable assets and sensitive documents before the flood came to the command.

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Southern Water has discharged raw sewage for more than 3,700 hours at 83 bathing water beaches during the first eight days of November alone, according to company data analysed by campaigners.

Ed Acteson of SOS Whitstable, which has been monitoring the data, said in his experience the scale was equivalent to five months’ worth of discharges: “The Environment Act was supposed to herald a new era for the environment in Britain. But this is the worst I have ever seen sewage pollution in the south-east.”

Monitoring of the storm overflow sewage discharges by Southern Water this month reveals the scale of releases into coastal bathing waters. The beach at Pagham, to the west of Bognor Regis, which boasted an “excellent” water quality rating this summer, has seen raw sewage discharged for more than 179 hours in two separate and continuing releases, according to the data published by the company.

On the Isle of Wight, Cowes has seen sewage released for more than 80 hours, Ryde more than 128 hours, and Sandown Beach, which the tourist board says is one of the finest on the island, has had more than 65 hours of wastewater and raw sewage discharges. In total, in the first eight days of November, the company has discharged wastewater at beaches for more than 3,700 hours, in 493 releases. At one point in the last 48 hours, 78 bathing water beaches showed sewage releases on the company map. Throughout the whole of 2021, Southern discharged raw sewage into waterways for more than 160,000 hours, with the average spill lasting 8.4 hours, according to Environment Agency data.

Bathing waters, which are rated from poor to excellent in the summer months, are not tested by the Environment Agency outside its designated swimming season from May to the end of September, so the impact of the scale of such discharges this month is not being measured.

Acteson said: “There are 86 bathing water beaches and as of yesterday 78 of them were showing sewage discharges, and another five had discharges which the company says are non-impacting. This is environmental vandalism and most of these discharges are still ongoing as we speak. It fills us with foreboding for the coming winter months.”

Southern Water recently changed its Beachbuoy pollution alert map for the public, reducing the amount of automatic red alerts after a discharge. The company is filtering the releases to decide whether they are impacting or non-impacting, with releases that are listed as impacting marked red on the Beachbuoy map. Southern says it takes into consideration factors such as tides, and the length of the sewage outflow, with 5km (3 mile) outflows into the sea described as non-impacting.

The November data analysed by SOS Whitstable shows that Southern Water has listed a raw sewage discharge at Bexhill of more than 120 hours as “non-impacting”.

Nick Mill, the head of Southern Water’s clean rivers and seas taskforce, said stormy weather and significant levels of rainfall over the past week had resulted in high volumes of surface water runoff, which could have overwhelmed the network.

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“To protect homes, schools and businesses from flooding, storm overflows act as a release value to relieve the pressure – allowing excess flows to bypass treatment and enter rivers and the sea,” he said. “These discharges are heavily diluted, typically being 95% rainwater, and are permitted by the Environment Agency. However, we know that these are not acceptable and this is why we are working hard to reduce them across our region.”

He added that the taskforce was leading the industry in finding solutions, and that while improvements continued, the company would provide infomation via their Beachbuoy service in order to be “as open and transparent as possible about any potential impact to coastal bathing waters and recreational watercourses”.

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The future of Trenton Water Works could now be decided, in large part, by the outcome of Tuesday’s city election.

The water system’s problems follow years of neglect, the city’s current leaders agree. What the state, the current mayor and members of the City Council don’t agree on is how many years and who did the neglecting.

There is some obvious malfeasance in recent memory. In 2012, Stanley “Muscles” David, the half-brother of corrupt former Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, pleaded guilty to misconduct for asking water crews to perform private side jobs using city equipment. There are also less malign miscues that starved the water system of money, like the failure to raise rates until recently. A city budget impasse prompted the state to consider the city as ineligible for federal pandemic relief and infrastructure money.

The state largely blames the City Council for the problems. In recent regulatory documents, DEP officials said they are “disturbed by the current city council’s continuing failures or refusals” to approve infrastructure projects. As a result of these failures, Trenton officials “will be unlikely to meet their long-outstanding obligations” to make water safety upgrades, the documents state.

Incumbent Mayor Reed Gusciora largely agrees with this.

Gusciora, who took office in 2018, is running for reelection against two council members — Kathy McBride and Robin Vaughn — who have opposed some of his plans to fix the system, like voting down plans to replace a water main that keeps breaking, remove lead service lines and fix a roof on the water treatment plant. Gusciora blames them and the council for voting down projects to make his administration look bad and help their campaigns for mayor.

“At some point, they turned on a political switch and have tried to stop every kind of progress that we’re making with the water department,” Gusciora said.

McBride, who is the council president, said she decided to run for mayor after seeing Gusciora struggle. She said the council has been doing due diligence about spending and blames Gusciora for the water system’s ongoing problems.

“When he applied for the job, he knew these problems existed, so [blaming the council] is an excuse and it’s a cop out,” McBride said.

Vaughn, the other council member running for mayor, did not respond to a request for comment, but her relationship with the mayor may be even worse. Recordings of a 2020 call among city officials caught Guscioria calling Vaughn an idiot and Vaughn calling Gusciora a pedophile and telling another council member to perform oral sex on the mayor. Gusciora was the first openly gay member of the state Legislature before he became Trenton’s first openly gay mayor.

In Jackson, Miss., advocates argued that long-running problems at the city’s troubled water treatment plant show the largely Black city has been neglected by the Republican-controlled state government. Some, but not all, of those dynamics are in place in Trenton, a city that is 49 percent Black and 37 percent Hispanic or Latino, according to Census data.

In an interview, Gusciora blamed the former Republican Gov. Chris Christie for some of the city’s problems, such as holding up hiring of water system staff, but put more blame on the current council. The current governor, Democrat Phil Murphy, has promised to “work tirelessly to safeguard our residents and return water system quality to the level our communities deserve.”

Murphy, like many lawmakers and state employees, lives outside of Trenton. Neither Murphy’s private home nor the governor’s official residence, Drumthwacket in nearby Princeton, get Trenton tap water.

Gusciora moved into Trenton after his legislative district was reconfigured and, in 2018, won the mayor’s race in a crowded field. Several people pointed to that history as part of the political tension he has with the council.

“People on council thought he was the white boy carpetbagger who knew better than everybody else,” said Steven Picco, who was Gusciora’s interim director of Trenton Water Works in late 2019. “So there was that. So there were chips on both sets of shoulders, which is not a good way to begin a relationship.”

Gusciora is white, McBride and Vaughn are Black.

In recent weeks, the DEP posted a decades-old report to then-Gov. Brendan Byrne about a catastrophic failure of Trenton’s water treatment plant over Labor Day weekend 1975. The report blamed the outage on “human error, equipment failure and design vulnerability.”

Mentioning this episode — from nearly 50 years ago — seems to annoy Trenton officials, as do any comparisons to Jackson, where residents have faced more than 300 boil water orders in the past two years and were left without running water for days at the end of the summer after flooding overwhelmed the city-run water treatment plant.

New Jersey officials have not compared Trenton to Jackson — during an interview, for instance, both the mayor and one of his top aides drank water straight from the tap in City Hall — but raising the specter of Trenton’s own historic treatment plant failure is hardly a vote of confidence in the system today.

“The infrastructure is fine. It needs work because there hasn’t been any work in 20 years, but there are good people in that department that know what they are doing,” Picco said. “They have all the tools they could devise themselves in place, they just need the OK to get on with it, which they haven’t been able to get.”

Picco said the mayor kept teeing up water projects that the council kept shooting down without having a real alternative. At one point, the mayor said the council voted down a $15 million plan to replace lead service lines, even though half of that money was a loan that would be forgiven by the state.

Some of the issues from bygone eras remain, like an open air reservoir.

Picco, who was in private practice as a lawyer before his stint for the water system, said one of his first jobs as lawyer for DEP was working on a report in the mid-1970s telling the city to cover an open air reservoir it has in town. Such reservoirs leave water exposed to the elements and have long been an issue. After 9/11, the push to cover them became even more urgent because they can be a security risk.

Trenton’s reservoir remains open all these years later and a plan to fully replace it with a series of water towers has stalled. In the meantime, according to the state, algae growing in the reservoir have contributed to the presence of midges — a kind of fly that is a worm in its larval stage — in the water system. The worms are not considered to be a health threat, but no water system wants a headline about worms in the water, which is what the city got. The state blamed the city council for “recurrent failure to approve critical and necessary funding.”

After the state moved to strengthen oversight of Trenton Water Works, Gusciora testified in front of state lawmakers and told them he not only welcomed the state stepping in to help run the system, he wants lawmakers to make clear that DEP can bypass the city to ensure Trenton Water Works is well-run and that its water is safe.

The mayor doesn’t support privatizing the system, but any kind of runaround may stir up long-running fears in the city that outsiders would come to seize control of the water system, which remains a source of civic pride.

That taps into long-running fears in the city that outsiders would come to seize control of the water system, which remains a source of civic pride. The system is one of the oldest in the country and a good local employer. Several of its top staffers are Black women.

At City Council meetings, public speakers will get up to talk about their worries that a private company will step in to take over the system. Two decades ago, voters helped block an attempt to sell off part of the water system to New Jersey American Water Co. In New Jersey, which is home to American Water’s corporate headquarters, this was a major victory for opponents of privatization.

The state’s oversight of the city stops short of privatizing, but pressure may be on to do more. The state’s increased oversight seems to amount to a partnership between the state and the mayor to bypass the City Council, which Gusciora is open to, but a new mayor may not want. Even the mayor concedes the state’s current oversight order is legally dubious.

Four surrounding towns — Ewing, Hamilton, Hopewell and Lawrence — rely in part on drinking water from Trenton but don’t have any say in how the system operates. Several of the towns have joined a DEP lawsuit against Trenton and also floated a variety of ideas to wrest control of the water system from the city, including regionalizing oversight of the system or privatizing it.

Hamilton Township Mayor Jeff Martin said he is glad the state has stepped in, but is open to further changes, including privatization. Already, he knows some families in his town that are paying for delivery of bottled water because they don’t trust the water coming from Trenton. In Hamilton, there have been several cases and one death from Legionnaires’ disease, a pneumonia-like disease that comes from breathing mist from bacteria-filled water.

“The complaint against privatization is it’s going to raise rates, but if it provides a safe clean product, for those who are paying private spring water, it’s still going to be cheaper, even if the rates go up,” he said.

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ATYRAU. KAZINFORM Today, at the meeting with the public of Atyrau region, Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev commissioned to speed up the reconstruction of Astrakhan-Mangistau water supply line, Kazinform learned from the Akorda press office.

«Many rural settlements of Atyrau region are in urgent need of a centralized water supply system, due to tear and wear of the existing infrastructure. People have to stand in queues for clean water. Water purification facilities in Atyrau and Makat district need to be restored. Drinking water shortage in the region may reach 40% in the nearest five years. Therefore, the Government and the regional akimat must give serious attention to the modernization of the water supply system. The reconstruction of Astrakhan-Mangistau water supply line should be accelerated,» said Tokayev.

The Government has to boost the talks with the banks and financial institutions on the construction of a new water supply line from the Volga River, he added.

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Every time you turn on the tap, you become the last stop in a complicated journey.

Water from snow and streams collects in lakes and reservoirs, and cities pump it through complex filtration systems to make it pure enough to drink. The particular balance of invisible minerals in each pour from your kitchen tap makes for subtle differences in every glass. One might call it the terroir of tap water.

In a bustling hotel ballroom, surrounded by exhibition booths showing off the latest pipes, pumps and filters, a panel of judges gathered to spot those differences.

I was one of them.

The American Water Works Association assembled a panel of water wonks for its Rocky Mountain regional meeting in the ski resort town of Keystone. Here, we put tap water to the test, blind tasting samples from six cities across Colorado to crown a winner.

I’ll be honest, I don’t know a lick about water tasting. I’m an avid water enjoyer, that’s for sure. Just ask any waiter who’s made four or five return trips to top up my glass during dinner, or any of my friends who rarely see me without my liter Nalgene. I guzzle enough water to make a camel blush, but my taste buds aren’t nearly refined enough to spot the difference between water from Denver and Durango.

Fortunately, the panel was replete with experts. Besides myself, a reporter on the water beat, there were people who have made a career out of studying water taste and odor. One of them was Victor Sam, an engineer for the consulting firm Stantec.

I leaned to my right, where Sam was seated, for some pre-competition advice: What am I even supposed to be looking for?

“Overall, you just want to have a pleasant experience,” he said. “Does it quench you? Does it taste good to you? Does it feel good? But, from a more scientific part of it, you can judge by mouthfeel. Is it slippery or is it grainy? Is it, maybe, dry? So it’s kind of like wine tasting.”

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KUNC reporter Alex Hager interviews Victor Sam while judging the water taste test. “It’s kind of like wine tasting,” Sam said.

The event organizers brought by a “taste and odor wheel,” a neatly charted list of all the notes you might pick up from a glass of water. Of course, there was chlorine and bleach, but also a lot of the same terms you might hear on a Saturday afternoon in Napa Valley – fruity, grassy and earthy.

The wheel wasn’t much help for me and the judge seated to my right.

Colin Chung, a member of the American Water Works Association Board, is a celebrity around these parts. Even so, he’s neither a scientist nor a sommelier.

“I can’t tell the difference between a $10 bottle of wine and a $500 bottle of wine,” he said, with a chuckle. “They all taste good to me.”

While the tap water selection was by no means wine, it was treated with the same ceremony and elegant touch as a nice cabernet.

The judges opened up heavy glass bottles brought to the competition by municipal water departments, decanting samples into stemmed glasses. Each judge received six, along with a grading sheet where we marked down scores from one to ten.

I delicately sipped a little from each glass. In the early going, not much stood out. I could tell that one sample was different from another, but couldn’t exactly describe how. Sam, the taste and odor expert, said good-tasting water is typically laden with minerals.

“A lot of times if you actually drink pure water,” he explained, “it doesn’t taste good because what’s happening is you’re just drinking H2O – no minerals – and you’re essentially tasting your own tongue.”

Because of that, he said, bottled water companies will brag about added minerals that make their water taste more “quenching,” and less like your own tongue.

After a first pass at the six waters, it was time to take a second lap and jot down some scores. That’s no small feat when each tastes so refreshingly bland. It was tough to cleanse my palate in between samples when the usual go-to palate cleanser is the very thing I’m supposed to be judging. The organizers put a few sleeves of saltines on the table to help.

The panel of judges was given a “taste and odor wheel,” a neat list of notes they might pick up from each sample. Those flavors ranged from chemical – chlorine and bleach – to terms more commonly associated with wine – fruity, grassy and earthy.

I took a few stabs at describing the taste of water in the comment section of my scoring sheet.

“Smooth, soft, airy.” That doesn’t say much, I realize, but they’re all fairly positive remarks. So is “plain,” I suppose, and I used that label for Sample D.

The only one that received negative comments was Sample F, which I called “thin and rubbery.” Expert Sam agreed.

For some additional comfort from my non-expert neighbor, Chung, I asked if he’s picking up on any of the nuances we saw highlighted in the taste and odor wheel.

“I’m trying and I’m trying to differentiate between the two,” he said. “And that’s very hard to do right now.”

But then, on my third or fourth sip from the Sample E glass, I had a breakthrough. Finally, a distinctive flavor. Citrus. The faintest whisper of tangerine or grapefruit. Like, one tenth of a La Croix.

I ran the revelation past Sam, but his fine-tuned taste buds did not come to the same conclusion.

“I think that one gave me the most slipperiness,” he remarked. “Did you eat something sweet for lunch?”

Seeing as I hadn’t had a bite of anything besides saltines since my breakfast burrito, I was elated that I’d picked up something so subtle that even my eagle-eyed (anteater-nosed? hummingbird-tongued?) neighbor couldn’t.

It was only a few minutes later when that jubilation came crashing down. Imagine my surprise when a routine key-check pat of my pockets revealed a forgotten tube of sweet mandarin chapstick.

Organizers tally scores at an American Water Works Association regional meeting. Judges compared tap water samples from six different cities across Colorado.

After seeing the rest of the judges turn in their score sheets, I scribbled down some shot-in-the-dark scores and turned in my sheet, dejectedly coming to terms with my newfound cluelessness when it comes to scrutinizing my all-time favorite beverage. The organizers carefully tallied the votes and passed those findings along to the emcee.

Our winner? Grand Junction, Colorado.

The Western Slope community is a well-watered oasis in the desert. It’s the first decent-sized city you hit on the drive west from the mountains. The dramatic peaks of the Rockies and the lush valleys below slowly unravel into dusty cliffs and sprawling red-dirt desert as you approach the Utah border. Grand Junction’s city pipes are filled with melted snow before it has a chance to flow further south.

After the dust settled, I caught up with the winning city’s water department, and they gave all the credit to their location.

“It comes straight from the Grand Mesa, the world’s largest flattop mountain,” said Amy Brown of Grand Junction’s water department. “Gorgeous place, great water, pristine snowmelt.”

At the end of the day, that could’ve been enough to make the difference. Judging water, or even just finding the particular brand or city tap that appeals to you, is far from an exact science. Just ask Susheera Pochiraju, one of the other judges. She’s an environmental engineer at the firm Hazen and Sawyer, and she literally has a Ph.D in this kind of thing. The emcee called her “Dr. Taste and Odor.”

“I feel like taste and odor is really subjective to people,” she said. “People have differing opinions. Sitting right next to each other, me and my partners had different opinions. So I think it would be hard to come to a consensus.”

Pochiraju said you can be an effective judge of tap water even without any expertise.

“My point of view is that it shouldn’t have any significant flavor,” she said. “It should just taste clean and not dry your mouth. No one needs a Ph.D. All we need is to kind of calibrate ourselves.”

Next, Grand Junction will take its water to the American Water Works Association annual meeting in Toronto, where it’ll face off against the best tasting taps from all across the continent.

This story is part of ongoing coverage of water in the West, produced by KUNC, and supported by the Walton Family Foundation.

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LANSING, Mich. – Free bottled water continues to be provided by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) for City of Benton Harbor residents for cooking, drinking, brushing teeth, rinsing foods and mixing powdered infant formula.

The state is continuing its all-hands-on-deck approach to support residents in the City of Benton Harbor until every home has safe drinking water. Lead-reducing filters and bottled water will be provided to City of Benton Harbor residents even as lead service line replacement work nears completion nearly five months ahead of schedule.

We are urging City of Benton Harbor residents to take advantage of a free home lead inspection and abatement services to ensure there are not additional sources of lead in their homes from paint or plumbing. Applications are available online at Lead Safe Home Program ALE application (michigan.gov)

To arrange water delivery to homebound or residents without transportation in the City of Benton Harbor, contact 211, which is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Phones that cannot contact 211 should contact 844-875-9211.

City of Benton Harbor residents can pick up water at Boys & Girls Club of Benton Harbor Fettig Youth Campus, 600 Nate Wells Sr. Drive, on the following dates:

• Tuesday, Nov. 8, 9 to 11 a.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 12, 12 to 2 p.m.
• Sunday, Nov. 13, 2 to 4 p.m.

Southwest Community Action Agency, 331 Miller Street, is hosting water pickup on the following dates:

• Wednesday, Nov. 9, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Thursday, Nov. 10, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Friday, Nov. 11, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Monday, Nov. 14, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The water bottle recycling trailer is now located in Housing Commission parking lot, 721 Nate Wells Sr. Drive. This location is adjacent to the water distribution site at the Boys & Girls Club to continue to allow easy access for empty water bottle recycling for residents.

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study confirms that certified filters, properly installed and maintained, are effective in reducing lead in Benton Harbor drinking water. The Berrien County Health Department has filters available free of charge.

The ongoing response in Benton Harbor includes the city, Berrien County Health Department, local community organizations, MDHHS and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called for the replacement of lead service lines in Benton Harbor in 18 months and the Whitmer-Gilchrist Administration the administration has secured the funding to replace 100 percent of the lines in the city.

There is no cost to City of Benton Harbor residents for lead service line replacement. To assist with assuring the work can be completed as soon as possible, residents are encouraged to complete the Water Service Line Replacement Agreement available online. Contractors cannot begin work on any property without property owner authorization. Completed forms submitted online or returned to Abonmarche, 95 West Main Street, Benton Harbor, MI 49022 or emailed to Sandy Riehl at [email protected]. For questions, call 269-926-4557.

For questions about lead, MDHHS can be reached at 866-691-5323 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

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