For more than a week, residents at one of New York City's largest public housing complexes drank, bath and cooked with water that may have contained dangerous levels of arsenic — and as testing continued Monday, residents are still left without clean water in their own homes.
The latest round of tests showed no arsenic in the water supply of the Jacob Riis Houses in the East Village. Some tenants are reassured by the results, but others remain on edge while the Housing Authority conducts more tests on over 100 samples. "Since Saturday, NYC DEP and @NYCHA have conducted additional, more precise testing at both the source and where water is delivered to Riis Houses apartments, and everything previously thought to be positive for arsenic has, so far, now tested negative," NYC Mayor Press Secretary Fabien Levy said in a tweet on Labor Day.
Levy added that Riis Houses residents are still advised to not drink or cook with the water in their building.
In your next report can you please investigate where the arsenic is coming from? thanks
Unacceptable