Environmental Monitoring and Technologies called the initial results that showed traces of the dangerous metal at the Jacob Riis Houses “incorrect,” according to a Friday statement from…
The laboratory that detected arsenic in the drinking water at an East Village public housing complex retracted its test results and “admitted to being the ones that introduced” the toxic compound in the samples, officials said.
“[O]ut of an abundance of caution, we are continuing to ask Riis House residents not to drink or cook with the water in their building,” said Levy. The findings contradict repeated statements by City Hall and the Housing Authority that there had only been one test positive for arsenic., which reported, citing two sources, that officials had known about the result for two weeks before telling Jacob Riis residents.James Keivom
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