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Does boiling the water help if it's contaminated with lead?

• PascLeRasc 7y ago
  I don't know. I can say I get the same metallic taste/smell in water/outdoors air as other commenters have mentioned, only in Pittsburgh.
• dgacmu 7y ago
  No, the GP is mistaken about the reason for the boil water advisories. it's true that Pittsburgh has a very aging water infrastructure, and there are somewhat regular water main breaks, which introduced the possibility of contamination for a period of time after the break. Those are what result in boil water advisories. The lead issue was a one-time, grevious error - The city outsourced the management of the water plant to a commercial vendor, who changed the mix of lead prevention chemicals in order to save money. Needless to say, that worked out poorly. Vincent's taking control back of the PWSA, and introduced orthophosphate into the water supply to control the lead from old pipes, and it's pretty good again.