Contaminated Water and Your Health

Both children and adults are vulnerable to the health effects of lead. Young children under the age of 5 are particularly vulnerable, because their body, brain, and metabolism are still developing. Lead exposure has been linked to a wide range of harmful effects on a child's development and on adult health. 

Lead

• Keeping Yourself and Your Family Healthy and Thriving (in Español)
  
• Flint Rash Investigation Report
  
• EPA Filter Study
  
• Lead and your health
• Health effects of low-level lead
  
• Lead Hotline:  The National Lead Information Center
• Questions and answers on unapproved chelation products (a type of product that can be used to treat lead poising)
• Lead contamination and children or pregnant women
  

Legionnaires' Disease

• Developing a Water Management Program to Reduce Legionella Growth and Spread in Buildings
  

Copper

• Copper

Disinfection with Chlorine & Chloramine

• Disinfection with Chlorine & Chloram