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SUBMITTED PHOTO CHARLESTON — State health officials are encouraging Clarksburg water customers to have children age six and under tested for lead poisoning. The warning from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources comes a week after state testing found some children with elevated levels of lead in their bloodstream. On Friday, DHHR officials announced they are combining forces with the U.S. Environmental Protection to assist the Clarksburg Water System in their efforts to identify and test older homes with lead service lines that may cause elevated lead levels in drinking water. Dr. Ayne Amjad, state health officer and commissioner of DHHR’s Bureau for Public Health, urges residents who live in homes built prior to 1950 to use bottled water and have their children tested for lead poisoning.

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