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 exceedence first came to newark. that came to june, july of 2017, and the mayor was basically, his entire message was the water is completely safe to drink. don t worry here. there were legal things the city had to do, testing, mail anyone whose house turned to positive tests. those are random samples you don t extrapolate from. 18 months the entire message from the city was these are outrageously
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 exceedence first came to newark. that came to june, july of 2017, and the mayor was basically, his entire message was the water is completely safe to drink. don t worry here. there were legal things the city had to do, testing, mail anyone whose house turned to positive tests. those are random samples you don t extrapolate from. 18 months the entire message from the city was these are outrageously false statements coming in about our water and the water is absolutely safe to drink. when you were in one of those 1400, 1500 households getting elevated lead levels of the water from the lead leaching