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Mayor Eugene Leggett last week alerting them of possible high levels of lead in their drinking water.
The tests, which are conducted once a year, are done randomly at five homes within the town.
Recently, one of the five homes tested very high for lead and copper.
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), any home with a lead level above 15-parts per billion is cause for concern.
As a result, town officials were required by the Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water to notify all of the town’s residents of the problem.
In compliance, letters were sent to residents and additional testing will be conducted on ten more houses within the next couple weeks.
“We will do more testing,” said Leggett. “Everyone is trying to play it safe here.”
If the ten new samples come back without alarm to the health department, Washington will go back to testing only five houses each year.
In that event, the owner of the house that originally tested high will
See WATER, Page A7
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