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Lead contamination 40 times acceptable level for Waikouaiti water sample


Dunedin City Council has revealed that one of its failed lead sample tests had in fact returned a level almost 40 times the acceptable limit.
Water tankers for Waikouaiti and Karitane after high lead levels found in the water.
Photo: RNZ / Tess Brunton
Previously, it had said the test sample taken on 8 December last year was only four times the allowable level.
One of the intermittent spikes in lead levels, a sample taken on 8 December 2020, was also incorrectly stated in one earlier radio interview to be four times the acceptable level of 10 micrograms/L, the council said in a statement.
In fact, at 0.39mg/L, the sample is almost 40 times the acceptable level of 0.01mg/L. ....

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