Table 6.
Result | Water system components | Materials | Systems | ||||||
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Foot valve () | Pump spout () | Rising main () | Pump rod () | Tap spout () | Brass () | Galvanized steel () | Stainless steel () | Systems with any component over 0.25% lead () | |
Samples exceeding 0.25% lead threshold | 19 [76 (55–91)] | 17 [59 (39–76)] | 9 [32 (16–52)] | 1 [4 (0–20)] | 13 [65 (41–85)] | 26 [72 (55–86)] | 44 [44 (34–54)] | 43 [41 (31–51)] | 107 [82 (75–88)] |
Samples exceeding 8% lead thresholda | 17 [68 (46–85)] | 0 [0 (0–12)] | 5 [18 (6–39)] | 1 [4 (0–18)] | 1 [5 (0–2)] | 11 [31 (16–48)] | 23 [23 (15–32)] | 21 [20 (13–29)] | 76 [58 (49–67)] |
Although 0.25% is the currently recommended threshold, plumbing codes used to reference an 8% maximum lead threshold prior to 2014.