Official fails to mention high lead levels in Warren

WARREN — Councilman Vince Flask says he’s unhappy with the lack of notification to Warren water customers of an East Side neighborhood where two high lead readings were found last summer.

He is also “a little disappointed” that Warren’s new utilities director did not tell council members last week about the two high readings on Perkinswood Boulevard Southeast.

“The fact that there were two high readings was never mentioned,” Flask said of a presentation Utilties Director Franco Lucarelli gave to council members and the public Wednesday.

On Sunday, The Vindicator revealed high lead levels that were uncovered after city testing last summer. The city did not release the addresses of the affected homes but a document on the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency website revealed the data.

Lucarelli, who recently became director after former director Bob Davis took a new job in May, discussed testing of Warren’s water Wednesday at a public meeting of council members and gave a similar report at the regular council meeting that followed.

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