Samples prove Lynn Hall water to be lead-free
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All Purdue buildings tested for lead content in drinking water now meet state standards.
According to a press release, water samples taken Oct. 22 from 19 drinking fountains in Lynn Hall are below the state limit for lead content.
There were five Purdue buildings that had water samples test over the state limit for lead earlier this semester: Krannert, Lynn Hall, Mathematical Sciences, Schleman Hall and an apartment in Purdue Village.
On Oct. 9, University officials announced the lead content of the water in all of the affected buildings except Lynn had been lowered below the state limit after a phosphate chemical was introduced to the water lines of the buildings.
According to University spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg, Purdue will have to test 60 buildings in the next round of tests between December and June. This is more than normally required by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management due to five buildings testing over the limit.
“Normally, we are asked to test 30, but we had five buildings test over,” she said. “We had a good record, we had done quite well. Now that we’ve previously had five that were over the threshold, it goes to 60 a year – at least for this year.”
She said the 60 buildings to be tested will include all five that tested over the limit this year. Before the five buildings tested over the state lead limit, Purdue hadn’t had a building test over the limit since 1993.