Jackson Free Press

The City of Jackson has lifted the boil notice for most of the city as they receive results from water tests, while one area still remains under watch.

"The lifts are issued as we get sampling results," Shelia Byrd, director of communications for the City of Jackson, said over the phone Monday.

The area still under a boil notice is concentrated in north Jackson including Village Drive, Norway Drive, Nordell Drive, Nisqually Road, Neering Trail and Nimrod Circle, Nakoma Drive and the 4600 to 4899 blocks of Kirkley Drive.

In another part of town, students from Belhaven University's Chemistry Department, led by department chair and professor Dr. Reid Bishop, "collected water from around the campus and places where students consume higher level of water such as the University Village and Bailey Dining Commons."

"After conducting a series of qualitative and quantitative tests, we have concluded that we do not have any lead in our water using EPA tests that would identitify unsafe levels of lead such as those found in high-risk areas such as Flint, Michigan," Dr. Bishop said. "We also looked for other toxic and nontoxic metals and there is no sign of anything in our water except normal amounts of calcium and other minerals."

According to their tests, the waster on campus show no levels of lead.

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