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Mark Valacak Mikelle Robinson

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Mikelle, Happy to work with you on this and appreciate any assistance the state can provide. The “tead in water” fact sheet is posted to cur website htto://www.echd.us/ under the nopular pages column. We sent our recommended revisions to the city water department for the advisory and will forward that when it is available, Mark Valacak, MPH, Health Officer Genesee County Health Department, 630 S. Saginaw St. Suite 4 Flint, Mi 48502-1540 Phone 810-257-3588 Fax 810 257-3147 <image001.jpg> Please consider the enviranment before printing this e-mail. "There are two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children: one is roots; the other is wings." Hodding Carter *NOTICE: This e-rnail, including attachments, is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclostire, use, distribution, copying, or taking of any action in reliance of the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited, If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me via e-mail and permanently delete the original and destroy ali copies. Thank you. For a copy of the Health Department’s Notice of Information Practices, contact the Health Department or visit the Health: Departinent’s website at htip://weow guhd as

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xxxEND_PAGE:dhhs02_b1268_4751_4754_2 004753 Hi Mark, Thank you for taking time to talk with me earlier. Attached are MDHHS talking points. Were you able to finalize and post your county fact sheet? Please forward a copy to me if possible. Also, | mentioned that we were looking into what D.C. did previously on this issue and this is an excerpt from their plan. FYI in case it is useful to you. Following the LCR (U.S. EPA 1991), guidance from the U.S. EPA, consultation with the DC Department of Health, and its own contingency plans, in 2003 the DCWASA implemented plans for families living in homes with lead lines or testing above the LAL: e Advisories were disseminated recommending that water lines should be flushed for 10 min before consuming drinking water. e Specific advice for limiting exposure to children < 6 years of age and pregnant and nursing women was sent to all households with suspected lead service lines, in the form of flyers prepared in English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Amharic. e Filters were distributed to homes with suspected lead service lines and later to all homes with a test result > 15 ppb (the LAL). Replacement filter cartridges were then sent to the same homes at 6-month intervals for the duration of the period of the exceedance, ending in June 2006. e The board of directors of the DCWASA decided to adopt a voluntarily accelerated program to replace the public segment of all lead service lines EPA 1991). ¢ Homeowners were offered replacement of the private segment of lead service lines on their property, at cost, at the same time that the public segments of the lead service lines were replaced. When the public line is replaced but the private line is not, lead levels are reduced proportionally to the length of pipe replaced but not eliminated. e Low-cost financing was arranged with a local bank for qualifying property owners who wished to replace the private part of the lead service line on their property. The DC government later made grants available to low- income eligible residents for this purpose. e The DCWASA offered free water testing to any customer in the distribution area who requested it. Thank you. Mikelle Mikelle Robinson Director, Local Health & Administrative Services Population Health & Community Services MDHHS xxxEND_PAGE:dhhs02_b1268_4751_4754_3 004754 65IL7) 33559701 RokinsommiSanchksgngay gov LPAR Advisory Release pdf> xxxEND_PAGE:dhhs02_b1268_4751_4754_4