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...THM levels in the water during the last two years do not constitute an "acute or even chronic health hazard," said University Health Services Director David S. Rosenthal, in a statement released yesterday...
...results of Harvard's tests, which were collected at five different locations around the campus, revealed THM levels ranging from 26 to 36 parts per billion--significantly lower than the city's most recent findings, which recorded levels ranging from 65 to 75 parts per billion...
CAMBRIDGE water has never been known for its purity. For years, observers have decried the rusty pipes, old equipment and adminstrative lethargy that make the city's water the most unsafe in the Boston area. Yet the January news that Cambridge water has contained concentrations of THM in excess of the level permitted by Environmental Protection Agency regulations for the past 16 months still shocked Harvard health officials. One would have hoped that administrators who are supposed to protect the community from health risks would have known about the situation earlier...
...communication in the short term. Instead, they decided to study the problem further, "discuss" the test results and then choose the appropriate--presumably soothing--language with which to inform Harvard affiliates of tainted water. Rosenthal said that he and Dr. Warren Wacker, former director of UHS, felt that the THM levels posed no "obvious health risk...
...will continue to monitor the CambridgeWater Department's quarterly test results...andwhat the City of Cambridge is doing to reduce thelevels of THM in the water supply," Bochnak said...