Show Redwood campus water tests safe by E EPA PA Greg BlackStaff Black BlackStaff Staff Writer REDWOOD campus has never failed to meet standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency for levels of lead and copper in its drinking water said a college employee The campus buys its water from the Hunter Granger-Hunter water district which currently is on all lead and copper monitoring and passed its last test The EPA requires wat water r samples to be drawn twice a year and tested for unacceptable levels of lead and copper what are considered considered considered con con- dangerous metals Internal Hygienist Dick VanAllen VanAllen VanAllen Van- Van Allen isn't too concerned Everything worries me but the risk factor isn't that big because because because be be- cause we run so much water through our system he said The U of U which has its own water system recently was cited by the EPA for failing Jailing to comply The risk factor isn't that big because we run nun so much water through our system Dick Van Allen with the standards The laws are changing constantly constantly constantly con con- VanAllen said Pretty soon they'll have us checking runoff runoff runoff run run- off water in the parking lot The main culprits are piping and soldering materials Corrosive water can pick up the metals and 1 r t j y S F I Horizon photo photo Ed d Lie file fileA LieA A flag ceremony will off kick-off Veterans Day at Redwood and on Thursday Nov 11 Featured guests included be the Singers and Commander David Bettin Bettinson on who will be bespeaking bespeaking bespeaking speaking at noon in the Sunken Lounge r r. r let them remain emain in n the drinking water water- Most of Redwood campus' campus buildings are about 20 years years old and the piping used is made of cast iron he said VanAllen added that cast iron piping is not harmful however is probably inthe in the same age category as some of the buildings at the le U he said adding that there could be higher risk for such problems Bob who was the project engineer when that building building building build build- ing was converted from South High to the said that was not the caseI caseI caseI case I saw one lead pipe come out of that whole building said Most of it was galvanized iron He said the only time they replaced any pipe was when they had to route re-route water lines The same thing with the cafeteria we reused whatever we could and used solder con containing no lead he explained VanAllen who has been on the job for only a year researched and found that the last time the Redwood Redwood Redwood Red Red- wood campus itself had its water tested was four years ago during the same round of tests that landed the U of U their ORIGINAL AL FIRST CHECK HE K citation it |