Word: epa
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Harvard yesterday released results of tests on the water supply, indicating that levels of potentially cancer causing chemicals in the Cambridge water supply have dropped below the maximum level allowed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
...conducted last Thursday by New England Chromochem, confirmed earlier tests by Cambridge officials which showed that the levels of trihalomethanes (THMs) in the water posed no danger to city residents. Levels of THMs--which are known to cause cancer in certain laboratory animals--in the water had exceeded the EPA maximum from July, 1988 to December...
Dowling said he was upset over that Harvard did not begin the testing process when it was first informed of the EPA violations last January...
...January, the city Water Department sent letters to customers telling them that levels of THMs in water exceeded EPA limits from July, 1988 through December, 1989. But last month, dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 told house masters that Harvard had already tested campus water and found it safe, according to Dowling...
...January, the Cambridge Water Department sent letters to customers telling them that levels of THMs in water exceeded EPA limits from July 1988 through December 1989. Because Jewett and the house masters believed that the water had been tested and found drinkable by the University, they did not tell students about the Cambridge letter...