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Seneca County public health outlines water-sampling program as water-enhancement grant approved
Summary
County public-health officials explained how the newly approved water-enhancement grant will fund regulatory water sampling and a resident sample service; discussion included a lab change and questions about pH readings from a resident.
Seneca County accepted a State Department of Health water-enhancement grant at the Feb. 25 Health and Human Services committee meeting, and county public-health staff described how the funds will be used to support required surveillance sampling and a resident water-sample service.
The grant — described in committee remarks as having increased this cycle by nearly 10% — underwrites mandatory surveillance samples taken by the county at regulated facilities and helps pay a portion of staff salary and fringe for the environmental health division, which regulates local water supplies.
Public-health staff described a resident-facing…
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