In a recently released report, Buffalo Grove officials said the quality of the village’s water supply meets or exceeds federal and state government standards.
As a result, the village didn’t record any violations during its annual water quality testing in 2015, a year that started to put a national spotlight on public water supplies following the water crisis in Flint, Mich.
“No violations were recorded for our water supply during this reporting period,” according to the village report.
Village officials tested and sampled for various contaminants, including lead. In Flint, Mich., a residential water supply became contaminated with dangerously high levels of lead — an issue that prompted the federal government to intervene and required Flint to switch water sources.
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In Buffalo Grove, water testing results for lead fell within U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards. The EPA guidelines considers water acceptable with 15 parts per billion of lead or less, while the agency’s tests cannot measure anything lower than two parts per billion, according to the EPA’s website.
Testing results also showed Buffalo Grove met other government standards, according to the village report.
Among the contaminants sampled, Buffalo Grove water supply showed safe amounts of radium, radon and barium. Buffalo Grove receives water pumped from Lake Michigan.
Public officials in nearby Lincolnshire also have revealed testing results of public water supplies in recent months. Officials at Lincolnshire-Prairie View Elementary District 103 found that their water supply in 45 water fountains in the district’s three buildings met EPA standards.
Even so, Superintendent Scott Warren said the district would replace five fountains with filtered ones to improve water quality.
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