
{"id":402,"date":"2007-06-07T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/06\/07\/letter-to-the-editor-2\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T19:53:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/06\/07\/letter-to-the-editor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thanks to OWASA<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Orange County Board of Health would like to express its appreciation to OWASA for its commitment to ensuring that their customers have safe drinking water.\u00c2\u00a0 Following a recent lead investigation involving a few buildings at UNC, OWASA offered to test all customers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 tap water for lead at no charge.\u00c2\u00a0 Exposure to high levels of lead can lead to serious health consequences for children and pregnant women.<\/p>\n<p>OWASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s collaboration with UNC as it investigated possible sources for lead in the water in some of their buildings was swift and thorough.\u00c2\u00a0 The follow-up community initiative to test for lead in water and to further examine how disinfection processes can be improved to prevent lead leaching is an outstanding example of excellence in public health practice.\u00c2\u00a0 OWASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s discoveries in this area and the application of any needed changes in treatment will help improve best practices across the state.<br \/>\nWe are indeed fortunate to have a public water utility that goes above and beyond what is required to serve our residents and protect the public\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We applaud OWASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s staff and board .<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Vizithum, Chair<br \/>\nOrange County Board of Health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to OWASA The Orange County Board of Health would like to express its appreciation to OWASA for its commitment to ensuring that their customers have safe drinking water.\u00c2\u00a0 Following a recent lead investigation involving a few buildings at UNC, OWASA offered to test all customers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 tap water for lead at no charge.\u00c2\u00a0 Exposure to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}