Mayor Adams on Tuesday promised a “thorough report” on how his administration handled the discovery of tests showing arsenic in the water at a Lower East Side public housing development.
“We’re going to be extremely transparent,” he told reporters, after refusing to take off-topic questions at a press conference about public safety. “We’re going to do a thorough report of what we’re doing, to make sure that people are safe.”
“I found out Friday,” Adams told the paper. “We’re doing a review to find out when was aware because there should have been a natural step of notification …. We’re going to be transparent on the flow of what happened.” Prior to those tests, and following months of resident complaints about cloudy water, DEP had declared the water at Riis drinkable on Aug. 16, after conducting tests that did not include checking for arsenic. For reasons not yet explained, NYCHA then expanded the scope of testing to include looking for arsenic.
The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene became involved in the issue at some point last week, DOHMH Commissioner Ashwin Vasan told THE CITY on Tuesday. The health department continues to advise tenants at Riis not to drink or cook with the water until the system can be thoroughly flushed, which involves running the taps for three to four hours in each apartment. Tenants can still bathe in the water, according to the Department’s advice.to preserve all documents related to the discovery of arsenic in the water.
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