After distributing test kits to 60 randomly selected households in mid-June as part of a project aiming to replace all lead water lines, Blue Island officials say the results found no immediate concern, though they plan to conduct additional tests.

City Administrator Thomas Wogan said the results met the Environmental Protection Agency’s 90th percentile value, which means lead in the drinking water samples did not exceed 15 parts per billion, comparable to adding 15 drops of a substance to a 10,000-gallon swimming pool, in at least 90% of the homes sampled.

Wogan also said no individual homes that were tested met the 90th percentile. He said in June the city would immediately notify any homes that had a high concentration of lead in their sampled drinking water.

Because no homes met

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