City admits to ‘cheating’ methods for residential lead testing

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The city of Buffalo has been using so-called water testing “cheats” when testing homes for levels of lead for years, according to The Guardian.
The article, which appeared in The Guardian on Thursday, counts Buffalo among some of the worst violators of so called “cheats” in testing residential water for safe lead levels.
Those cheats provide results that show lower levels of lead in water than their actually is.
The city’s water board sa