Auburn City Council members expressed concern during Thursday’s meeting over rumored changes in the state health department’s methodology on reporting microcystin toxin levels in county drinking water, though health department officials said that is not true.
Councilor Terry Cuddy said he was informed at a meeting for an Owasco Lake activist group, called Save Owasco Now, that the New York State Department of Health changed its reporting procedures. Cuddy said the state Wadsworth Laboratory, which tests all drinking water samples, would no longer be reporting microcystin toxin levels at 0.15 parts per billion and that the lab would only report the toxins at 0.3 parts per billion or higher.
“I think the people of Auburn, the people of Owasco, those who are supplied with water from Owasco Lake, should know (what is in their drinking water),” Cuddy said during the meeting.
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