{"id":179865,"date":"2025-08-27T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179865\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:56:09","slug":"despite-meeting-standards-syracuses-drinking-water-lead-levels-remain-a-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179865\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite meeting standards, Syracuse\u2019s drinking water lead levels remain a concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4D7KMRHJNZB5XJLWVGB3MQUX3I\">Syracuse, N.Y. \u2014 Syracuse\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/health\/2025\/07\/syracuses-water-shows-lead-levels-far-below-epa-limit-a-year-after-recording-dramatic-spike.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/health\/2025\/07\/syracuses-water-shows-lead-levels-far-below-epa-limit-a-year-after-recording-dramatic-spike.html\">most recent testing<\/a> for lead in its drinking water yielded its lowest mark since 2018. At 9 parts per billion, results from the first half of 2025 put the city\u2019s lead level below the current federal standard of 15 and a future standard of 10. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"X3DAOYEWLBFU3DOSZ6B55B54OA\">But that does not mean everyone\u2019s water is safe to drink at any time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syracuse, N.Y. \u2014 Syracuse\u2019s most recent testing for lead in its drinking water yielded its lowest mark since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":179866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[4691,746,210,5615,50,159,4695,4697,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-179865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-editorial","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-lead","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-syracuse","15":"tag-trimble","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115101079034908390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}