MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams August 27, 2019 08:52:00
Years newark has been combatting lead. it has these ancient old pipes and using sodium silicate to prevent the lead from reaching the water. when they made the water acidic to deal with one problem they rendered the sodium silicate ineffective. they never did a test before doing that. the state was unaware they were doing this. city officials couldn't produce any tests that showed when they were looking to change the acidity, they wondered what other impact it might have on the water. that's what started snowballing the effect from our report that brought us to 2017 when the first lead level e...