In a town where the water service lines are nearly a century old, a federally and state-mandated notice is making the rounds of Somerset, drawing “confusion” and “questions” from water district customers who may need their water lines evaluated and replaced. 

Affected residents received a two-page Dec. 29 notice also shared with The Herald News notifying them that the lines delivering drinking water to their homes could made of “unknown” or unclassified materials that need to be tested and inventoried to ensure the pipes do not contain lead. 

The state’s Department of Environmental Protection and the federal Environmental Protection Agency require that the town send a notice to residents stating that unknown pipes could be “presumed to contain lead.”

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