It’s conclusive, according to the latest tests on Saturday, Sept. 10, that there wasn’t any “discernible amount of arsenic in the water” at New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) Jacob Riis Houses in lower Manhattan.
on Saturday, Sept. 10, that there wasn’t any “discernible amount of arsenic in the water” at New York City Housing Authority’s Jacob Riis Houses in lower Manhattan. The results, however, have done very little to douse the ire and suspicions of the mostly Black and brown residents. At least 35 of them have banded together to sue the city and/or the lab company for $10 million in emotional damages, said their lawyer.
There were stacked boxes of pasta at the table in front of her and a conspicuous white tent set up next to them. Out on the sidewalk, all along Avenue D, were NYC water stations jerry rigged to the fire hydrants where residents occasionally carted over jugs of water to refill. People were understandably pissed off when informed by the city’s Chief Housing Officer Jessica Katz and NYCHA’s Chair and Chief Executive Officer Gregory Russ at the community meeting that the Environmental Monitoring and Technologies labs were wrong about the arsenic and had toThe city said that all “original water delivery points that were previously thought to test positive for arsenic have been retested and found to be negative.
The news of wrong results was met with a visceral reaction of disbelief from tenants, some of whom demanded compensation. Mayor Eric Adams was not present at the community meeting to talk to riled up residents, but he and Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr.
As far as the concerns about Legionella bacteria being in the water, Vasan in a presser this week confirmed that tests were positive.
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