The county is now saying privately owned pipes want assessments.
“The high quality of the water shouldn’t be dangerous,” stated Robert Huber Thursday. The DeKalb resident says the water he will get from DeKalb County’s water system is an improve from different municipal water he’s used.
“I’ve higher confidence within the municipal (water) right here than I’ve in different elements of Atlanta,” he stated.
DeKalb County is among the many metro Atlanta counties which have spent years rebuilding the numerous miles of pipes connecting houses to the county water system.
“A few of our water pipes, public or personal, are 100 years previous, or 50 or 60 years previous,” stated DeKalb CEO Michael Thurmond. He says the county not too long ago examined all these public water pipes—and all the county’s pipes got here up clear.
“The general public portion of the system we inventoried, and we discovered no lead pipes in any of these pipes,” Thurmond advised 11Alive Information.
Nonetheless, the county didn’t stock the water pipes main from county water traces to residents’ personal houses or companies. The county not too long ago despatched letters to residents urging them to check the water from these pipes themselves. Such check kits are commercially accessible.
Johnny Sughrue says his DeKalb water might be OK. “It was constructed within the sixties, so I’m pretty assured the piping was accomplished with perhaps, hopefully, copper,” he stated.
Thurmond says owners can resolve whether or not or to not check their water for lead now or at any time. In the event that they do, the home-owner must take in the associated fee.
