Washington DC sued by residents over lead in water

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8 Mar 2004 23:08:43 GMT
Washington DC sued by residents over lead in water

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - Angry Washington residents filed suit on Monday against city authorities they said kept the public in the dark about excessive levels of poisonous lead in tap water in the nation's capital for more than two years.

The law firm representing the residents -- two couples with infants whose tap water was found to contain as much as 30 times the acceptable level of lead in recent tests -- said it also planned to file suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies.

Charles Patrizia, one of the lawyers at Washington law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker working on the case, said the suits sought more than anything else to force authorities to supply alternate clean drinking water and clean up the lead.
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