The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, chaired by Chol Madjok, met to discuss issues surrounding lead in residential water pipes, focusing on water sampling and service line replacement. The meeting included updates from the Water Commissioner on testing protocols, replacement progress, funding, and public health concerns. Council members and community representatives raised questions about education, filter distribution, and the pace of replacement.
Public uh public works and infrastructure committee meeting. I'm the chair, Chol Madjok. I'm joined by Councillor uh and Aaron Rike and right. I could I can never get that. I'm sorry to the other day. We're gonna get it right. Yeah, and right. And Aaron Right. Council Moore, Council Nave, Council Cardwell. Now President Did you just say one of the things? And and President uh Penawa. I'm joined by the commissioner. Commissioner, uh thank you for coming. Uh we are here today to talk about the issues around lead in the pipe in the around residential, as far also as far as the pipes. So the this meeting is going to be twofold. The first part is going to talk about the testing part of uh part of the lead. The other piece is going to talk about the pipe replacement. So it's a two-piece. And what I wanna do is give the commissioner the floor to run us through. We have already had a conversation and uh put in a request for him to outline this this issue. So we're gonna give you the floor and let's hold out questions until he's done, and then we can we can go into discussion. Fair all right. Yeah, sounds good. So sit somewhere else in terms of the screen. No, I'm not gonna use that quite yet. Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a little update on the water sampling. So the City of Surge is required to do two semesters of water sampling a year. First semester, which runs from January to June, second semester, July to December. We have just finished our second semester for the 2025 season. Um we haven't we've got the results, we haven't made them public yet. They have to be approved by the EPA and the Department of Health, but they've come in under the 15 parts per billion action level, which is the EPA standards, um, for the third testing cycle in a row. Um we had 120 water do our sampling. They've done it for the last two semesters. The first half of 25, the second half of 25. We are now entering into a contract because we put it out for RFP out for it with TruPonti, who's another company that does the same kind of sampling. Um the testing will be exactly the same. It'll go you'll get something in the mail. And we have to test a hundred homes per semester. So you'll get a we we try to test the same homes so that way we can you know make sure our water treatment's working, or orthophosphate is working um in these homes, and we we break them up throughout the community so they're on every different side of town, and uh there's tier one testing, which they have to be a single family home in New York State, um, with a lead service line that meet the tier one criteria. Um Trupani won the contract, they are going to do it the in the same pattern as 120 water did. Uh you'll get a mailing, you'll get a update, you know, saying that the testing is begun, asking if you want to participate. Um once you s you know, say you want to participate, they'll send you a sample kit in the mail. You'll take your sample, you'll put it in the mail, it goes directly to the lab. There's no middle people touching the sample, it goes from home to lab. And then we'll get our results and we wait till we get a hundred or more samples, and at the end of June of this year, we'll have our first half of 2026 sampling done. And that's how we do our testing. We ask questions or you want to look, I'm waiting. So we'll move to the next portion, but yeah, follow up with these. No, I just wanna no, go ahead.