Vradenburgh has spent his entire career working for the water department of Newburgh, an upstate New York city of 28,000 people, most of whom are Hispanic or black. Then, a mere two weeks after he took over, state health officials pulled up in his driveway. Mark Kauzlarich for HuffPost The sun shines across the water of the Lake Washington reservoir in Newburgh, New York. The weekly tests are expected to cost the water department $1,200 a month, nearly doubling what it used to pay for standard bacterial testing. “It was a simple error in labeling on the map,” said Martin Brand, deputy commissioner for remediation at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Source: Huffington Post March 09, 2018 10:46 UTC