lead action level

Despite the lead testing data, an EGLE spokesperson says the city’s drinking water quality is improving.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy said the 90th percentile value of lead in the city's drinking water was 14 parts per billion, just within the federal action level.

This latest round of Lead and Copper Rule monitoring spanning six consecutive months showed 90% of water samples collected were at or below 7 parts per billion for lead, compared with 3 parts per billion in the first half of the year.

Benton Harbor has the longest-running lead-in-water exceedance in Michigan history, surpassing Flint by more than a year. The state paid a portion of Flint water bills for nearly three years. Benton Harbor residents are hoping for similar relief.

The threat itself is nothing new. It’s just newly known to the public, the result of a rule change that forced water suppliers to start looking harder for the neurotoxin in their water delivery systems starting in 2019.

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