The Water Supplies Department announced on Wednesday (3rd) a water sample taken from a private non-residential premises in Wan Chai. The lead content was found to exceed the Hong Kong drinking water standard. The specific location of the building has not been announced so far.
Tsai Tak-yip, chief water laboratory technologist of the Water Supplies Department, said that the building is huge, and it was temporarily found that the drinking water contained excessive lead in one of the units. The building has to hire professionals to find out the range of lead content.
He emphasized that he had taken fresh water samples from the restaurant in the same building on the same day and confirmed that there was no lead contamination, and no action was required.
When Tsai Deye accepted the RTHK program "Millennium", he pointed out that in the non-mandatory participation in the "Water Quality Monitoring Optimization Program", one unit of a building found that the lead content exceeded the standard, and it was not yet determined whether other units had the same problem. , Means that the building has been notified immediately to take mitigation measures and provide alternative sources of drinking water.
Tsai said that after learning that a unit had exceeded the lead content, he immediately went to the restaurant in the building to take a fresh water sample. The sample did not exceed the standard, that is, it was not contaminated, and no action was required.
Cai said that the building involved is huge, and one unit exceeding the standard may not affect the other. It is necessary to confirm the extent of the problem first, and that the building has been required to notify all users.
He pointed out that the Water Supplies Department will provide technical support to the building. If the building does not complete the investigation within a reasonable time, further action will be taken. Depending on whether the investigation result will cause a public health risk, it will decide to announce the address. If it involves non-compliance Materials and prescriptions can also be intercepted, but the temporary analysis does not constitute a public risk.
Lead water building｜Refused to announce the location of the Wan Chai building involved. The Director of Water Supplies explained that it will not affect public safety. The building involved in the Wan Chai building is a commercial building. The Water Supplies Department does not disclose the specific location
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