MWRA: No Drugs in Medford’s Water
After the Associated Press broke the story about traces of pharmaceuticals found in some of the nation’s water supplies, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority found no traces of drugs in its water supply after a recent round of testing.
The MWRA said it did not expect to find any drugs in the water supplied to 50 communities in eastern and central Massachusetts because its source reservoirs are well protected and the ozone treatment provided at the Carroll Water Treatment Plant should destroy many of them if they were present.
“But, just to be sure, we did test, and the results confirmed that there are no traces of pharmaceuticals in the water we deliver to the 2.3 million customers in the MWRA service area,” said MWRA executive director Frederick A. Laskey, a Medford resident.