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Based on incorrect information, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 told house masters last month that Harvard had already tested campus water for high levels of trihalomethanes (THMs), chemicals found to cause cancer in some laboratory animals, and found it safe...
...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...
...Jewett has said he gave the house masters information based on a conversation he had with Michael N. Lichten, Director of the Office of Project Management. Yesterday, Lichten said there was a misunderstanding. He said he had told Jewett only that initial testing procedures had begun, not that the tests were complete...
...Part of the confusion is that testing is a complex process," said Lichten. "I told Dean Jewett that the Environmental Health and Safetey Office was testing the water. It wasn't done, but was in the process of being completed...
What is apparent is that the system for dealing with environmental hazards on campus must be reformed. Those administrators who deal directly with students should not have to rely on third-hand information from lower-level bureaucrats. The recent misunderstanding arose in part because Jewett was not included in key meetings of the Environmental Safety Committee--the University body that sets its environmental policy--about whether to notify the University community of the water contamination...