Comments on: State Warns Of Excessive Lead In One Escambia County (AL) Water System http://www.northescambia.com/2020/09/state-warns-of-excessive-lead-in-one-escambia-county-al-water-system Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:45:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: J. Talle http://www.northescambia.com/2020/09/state-warns-of-excessive-lead-in-one-escambia-county-al-water-system/comment-page-1#comment-429012 J. Talle Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:56:16 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=418016#comment-429012 Thank you for reporting this, William! I received a letter from McCall Water System (several pages long) that managed to be less informative than this article. The one piece of information I needed was not stated in the McCall letter. Nowhere did it say clearly if my house water has unsafe lead or not. Just vaguely mentioned some of the thousands of people in their distribution have unsafe lead in their water. No mention of street names or number they found. It did include a sheet of nationwide water testing labs addresses who could test my water - at my own expense - and a lot of alarming facts about lead I already was aware of. I'm glad to read that McCall is not detecting unsafe lead from their water sources at this time and don't have lead lines. I have a newer house, pvc and copper pipes with the non-lead solder required after the 1980s. I would think my pipes are not contributing any unsafe lead to my house, but an older home's pipes could potentially. Thank you for reporting this, William! I received a letter from McCall Water System (several pages long) that managed to be less informative than this article.

The one piece of information I needed was not stated in the McCall letter. Nowhere did it say clearly if my house water has unsafe lead or not. Just vaguely mentioned some of the thousands of people in their distribution have unsafe lead in their water. No mention of street names or number they found.

It did include a sheet of nationwide water testing labs addresses who could test my water – at my own expense – and a lot of alarming facts about lead I already was aware of.

I’m glad to read that McCall is not detecting unsafe lead from their water sources at this time and don’t have lead lines. I have a newer house, pvc and copper pipes with the non-lead solder required after the 1980s. I would think my pipes are not contributing any unsafe lead to my house, but an older home’s pipes could potentially.

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