“They knew about this for two weeks and they only came to tell us last night about it,” a tenant named Evelyn charged. “They knew about the water coming out brown and rusty and they didn’t do anyth…
“It’s scary,” said Daisy Ayala, 35, a mother of six who was incensed about the potential effect of the dangerous heavy metal on her young children.Ayala lined up with her neighbors Saturday morning to claim boxes of city-supplied bottled water — but said that the amount she received would never cover her family’s needs.
Residents disputed NYCHA officials’ claims that water tests revealing unsafe levels of arsenic at the huge East Village complex only came to light on Friday. that is toxic at low levels — could be found in city drinking water, which flows from a heavily protected watershed in the Catskill Mountains.Experts are stumped about how arsenic could get into NYC water.William Farrington
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