WATERBURY, Vt. -
Last year a routine test of the Village of Waterbury, Vermont water showed some of its customers had high amounts of lead.
Information that worries Dorienne Cedeno, especially because she's pregnant.
"I was very concerned right away because I know that lead can cause significant brain damage for unborn children," said Cedeno.
Even more troubling for Cedeno is the fact the test was done in August, the information wasn't made public until February.
"I think that communication needs to happen much more quickly," said Cedeno.
To find out what took so long, we met with Waterbury Water Superintendent Bill Woodruff.
"There might be some people concerned that say, it was 5 1/2 months, how come you didn't let us know sooner?" said FOX44/ABC22.
"The tests were taken the end of August. 2 or 3 weeks or so, a month maybe before we get the results," said Woodruff.
The Vermont Department on Environmental Conservation ran the test.
We spoke with someone in the department that told me it just got busy and he didn't get the results out as soon as he'd like.
When the results did come back, Woodruff says he was told to release them in February.
We also discovered Waterbury isn't alone, leaders say a number of places across the state tested positive for lead.
Experts say the best way to make sure to make sure there is no lead in the water you're drinking is to turn on the faucet and let it run for 15-30 seconds. After that they say the water is ok to drink.
But that isn't enough for Cedeno, who plans to get her water checked.
"The test hopefully should be done on Thursday," said Cedeno.
We want to make sure this point comes across.
The water itself coming from the treatment facility is okay.
It's people's pipes and faucets that might contain the dangerous chemical.
For more information on lead testing, click here.
For more information the lead report, click here, but know this from the DEC:
"Unfortunately, in order to capture Waterbury in the listing I've attached (as they were on Reduced Monitoring on a triennial basis) I captured more than just systems exceeding the 90th percentile values in 2012. The Waterbury system monitored for lead and copper in 2009 and thus, was scheduled to repeat such sampling in 2012. "
