UPDATE: Sandy City issued an update Saturday advising residents from 10600 South to 11400 South and 700 East to 2000 East to not drink the water.
SANDY, Utah – New lab results show high levels of fluoride, copper and lead were detected in Sandy City’s water supply after city officials said a snowstorm caused their system to malfunction.
The city said about 600 homes were affected, from 10600 South to 11400 South and 2000 East to 700 East.
It is our belief that the lead and copper is also within a safe range,” Ward said.
Some residents did report illness because of the increased fluoride levels, “at least five households had reported to us that they had individuals sick in their household last Thursday.
The increased fluoride levels also impacted the system, causing an increase in levels of lead and copper, according to the city.
“Once the city’s Public Utilities Department discovered the failed equipment on Thursday, February 7 at 2 p.m., they immediately closed valves to isolate the area (approximately 11026 South to 11125 South and 1850 East to 1950 East).
Crews flushed the drinking water line, notified the State of Utah and the Health Department, and went door-to-door to notify and instruct customers to flush their water systems,” Sandy City said in a statement.
Bottled water pick up is at the old Reams location on 10650 South 700 East.
— Sandy City (@sandycityutah) February 16, 2019 Sandy City is encouraging residents who have not yet flushed their systems to do so.

Blue tap water at two schools has been found to contain three times the legal level of copper.
Pupils and teachers at Buchanan High and St Ambrose High in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, were told not to drink tap water in December, three years after the first warnings that it was running blue.
Now the results of tests show the amount of copper in the water was more than three times the permitted levels in the home economics room and nearly double in the school kitchen.
The tests also revealed water in the staff room and the school kitchen failed to meet regulated standards because of the presence of coliforms – bacteria which indicate faecal contamination.
The schools share a campus, which was built on a former landfill site for industrial waste.
However, the contamination may come from the copper pipework, which is being replaced with plastic.
Teachers have raised concerns over the blue water issue affecting their health, with figures showing Buchanan High has the highest rate for teacher sickness absence in North Lanarkshire.
But legitimate questions do remain over what is causing this in the first place.
Microbiologist Professor Hugh Pennington said: “There shouldn’t be any coliforms in drinking water, there should be zero, so there is something wrong somewhere.
“Coliforms themselves are a harmless bug, but they indicate faecal contamination.”

Those results, I found them to be problematic, and if they aren’t already investigating further they should be.” FOX 8 has learned that some samples taken from a local school in St. Tammany Parish exceeded the EPA’s action level under the Lead and Copper Rule.
Out of 20 samples taken this March at Fifth Ward Junior High School in Bush, 13 exceeded the EPA’s action level of 1.3 parts per million for copper, and three samples exceeded the EPA’s action level of 15 parts per billion for lead.
They recommend lead levels at school water fountains don’t exceed 1 part per billion.
Katner: "Hopefully they have tried to get bottled water in and other sources of water for the children while they’re investigating this, and the school hopefully is working with the state to figure out how to remediate the situation.” “We put chemicals in the water to sort of create this protective scale around some of these pipes so that they don’t leach into that.
They didn’t use corrosion control,” said Katner.
Because of that, the Louisiana Department of Health requires the school system to test for lead and copper.
Mendez: "You might be concerned.
However, I would caution that those levels were in areas where children did not have access to the water and where the water was not being used for the children or for the staff.” Mendez says parents were notified about the elevated lead and copper levels.
She adds the school system implemented corrosion control measures and conducted field tests that show the water levels are now within the proper range.
So the water fountains are run constantly, daily, so a lot of these results came out of places where the sink is not used on a regular basis, like for instance, one of them was in a closet that was in the back of the gym.

The drinking water in more than half of Detroit public schools has unsafe levels of copper and lead, recent testing determined.
The Detroit Public Schools Community District said Wednesday that 57 of 106 schools in the system tested positive for copper and/or lead in drinking water.
Another 17 schools are awaiting results, the Associated Press reported.
The school district initiated the testing last year to "ensure the safety of the students," the Detroit News reported.
"This (testing) was not required by federal, state or city law," the school district said.
"As you know, drinking water in these schools was discontinued as we await water test results for all schools.
Although the kitchen water has only been turned off in schools where levels were determined high, we have been using bottled water to clean food in all schools," Detroit Superintendent Nikolai Vitti told the Detroit News.
(MORE: Michigan Official to Stand Trial for Deaths in Flint Water Crisis) The results at the Detroit schools come on the heels of a lead-tainted water crisis in Flint, Michigan, located some 70 miles to the northwest.
Numerous children became ill after the city failed to properly treat corrosive river water in 2014 and 2015, allowing lead in old pipes to contaminate the water in homes and businesses.
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In the latest round of test results released Wednesday, an additional 33 schools in the Detroit Public Schools Community District showed elevated levels for one or both of the contaminants.
The district is still waiting for results from 17 schools.
It all started after water testing in the spring found higher-than-acceptable levels of copper and/or lead.
By August, 34 total schools had confirmed water quality issues.
The district started the school year in September by shutting off drinking water access to all 106 school buildings, providing bottled water and water coolers as substitutes.
The superintendent, the Great Lakes Water Authority and Detroit Water and Sewage Department have said the school district’s aging infrastructure is likely to blame for the issues.
The Detroit Public Schools Community District is recommending to the board that it install hydration stations across the district for the start of next school year.

As a parent, we can only hope that when we send our children to school each day they are not only getting the best education possible but are also being taken care of nutritionally.
We should be able to trust that the cafeteria has healthy choices and will feel our children if our busy mom brains forgot to give them lunch money, or they left is on the counter at home.
And above all of that, our children should have access to clean water whenever they are thirsty throughout the day.
Across the United States, it’s back to school season.
Children are packing up their backpacks, filled to the brim with school supplies and waiting at the bus stop with anxious parents for that big yellow bus to pull up.
In Detroit alone, there are 47,000 students going through these motions, but the difference is that none of these children will have access to clean drinking water.
Their findings showed that drinking water in 24 schools and found that 16 had high levels of copper and lead.
Because of this, officials have made the decision to shut off the drinking water in 106 public schools in the district while they can test the remaining schools’ drinking water supply.
They are just playing it safe at this time.
In order to rectify the issue, the school has announced that they will be spending $200,000 on water bottles and coolers for the next two months.

It’s officially back-to-school season but an estimated 47,000 students in Detroit will be forced to begin school without access to their school’s drinking water after Detroit’s Public School District tested the drinking water of 24 schools and found that 16 had high levels of copper and lead.
This discovery caused officials to shut off the drinking water in 106 public schools in the district while they can test the remaining schools’ drinking water supply.
In a statement, Superintendent Nikolai Vitti explained that this does not mean that all the schools have contaminated water.
Rather, to ensure the safety of the students, the district has decided to play it safe for now until they are certain water is safe for kids to drink.
“Although we have no evidence that there are elevated levels of copper or lead in our other schools where we are awaiting test results,” Vitti said.
“[O]ut of an abundance of caution and concern for the safety of our students and employees, I am turning off all drinking water in our schools until a deeper and broader analysis can be conducted to determine the long-term solutions for all schools.” Water with high levels of lead or copper can pose a serious health risk for whoever drinks it, including nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, and diarrhea.
Fortunately, for now, there does not seem to be any evidence that Detroit’s water system has been contaminated by copper or lead, as the World Health Organization reports that lead poisoning is “particularly harmful to young children,” as it can cause “developmental and behavioral delays in children.” So how is the district planning to provide drinking water for students while it figures out the extent of the problem?
For now, bottled water seems to be the answer, as Vitti told the Associated Press that the district is planning to spend $200,000 on water bottles and coolers for the next two months.
After that, if necessary, the district will likely seek out bids for a long-term contract.

Ramon Padilla, Karl Gelles and Shannon Green, USA TODAY DETROIT — Detroit’s city school district is shutting off drinking water to all of its schools after test results found elevated levels of lead or copper in 16 of 24 schools recently tested.
In a statement Wednesday, Superintendent Nikolai Vitti of the Detroit Public Schools Community District said he had initiated water testing in all 106 school buildings in the spring to ensure the safety of students and employees.
"Although we have no evidence that there are elevated levels of copper or lead in our other schools where we are awaiting test results, out of an abundance of caution and concern for the safety of our students and employees I am turning off all drinking water in our schools until a deeper and broader analysis can be conducted to determine the long-term solutions for all schools," Vitti said.
► April 9: Up to 30,000 Flint kids to be screened for effects of lead in drinking water ► August 2017: 63 million Americans exposed to unsafe drinking water ► December 2016: What the EPA says it’s doing about lead in tap water Both lead and copper leach into drinking water primarily through corroded pipes and other plumbing fixtures, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
The Detroit Free Presswas shadowing Vitti on a day in May when the issue of water quality in the schools came up during a cabinet meeting.
Earlier that day, Vitti had learned that test results at several schools had come back showing elevated lead levels.
The district’s building problems have been a constant source of frustration for Vitti.
Water fountains and other drinking-water sources likely will be shut off at all schools by the end of this week and certainly before the school year begins Tuesday, said Chrystal Wilson, school district spokeswoman.
► April 2016: Lawmakers target lead contamination in drinking water ► March 2016: Excessive lead levels found in 2,000 water systems across all states Detroit’s water department and the regional water and sewer agency for southeast Michigan, the Great Lakes Water Authority, also issued a statement to assure residents that the lead and copper contamination with water in the school buildings do not extend to the pipes that deliver water to customers’ homes.
This isn’t the first time the district has tested school buildings for elevated levels of lead and copper.

DETROIT – Detroit public schools will start the year using bottled water in every school after tests revealed elevated lead and copper levels in the drinking water.
The Detroit Public Schools Community District conducted tests on all facets at schools.
The water coming from DWSD passed the standard, but fixtures and lines caused elevated levels at some of the schools.
Here’s what Detroit Public Schools Community District Superintendent Nikolai P. Vitti said in a letter: I initiated water testing of all of our school buildings during the spring to ensure the safety of our students and employees.
This past week initial results were returned for 24 schools and higher than acceptable levels were identified for copper and/or lead in 16 schools at one or more water sources.
I made the decision to shut off all drinking fountains and provide bottled water and water coolers to those schools at that time because of my concerns with water quality despite the intervention.
Although we have no evidence that there are elevated levels of copper or lead in our other schools (over 50) where we are awaiting test results, out of an abundance of caution and concern for the safety of our students and employees, I am turning off all drinking water in our schools until a deeper and broader analysis can be conducted to determine the long-term solutions for all schools.
I have communicated this decision to the Mayor’s Office and the Mayor and his team are supportive of the decision and intend to require all city charter schools to participate in the same level of water testing as we initiated last year.
That was nearly a year after testing found 19 out of 62 buildings in the district had elevated lead and copper levels in drinking water.
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PETOSKEY — Officials from municipalities throughout Michigan — including Petoskey — have concerns about new state rules that tighten lead pipe regulations, arguing that they could require millions of dollars in local government repairs, with no reimbursement from the state.
The rules, which burgeoned out of a reaction to the Flint water crisis, make Michigan the strictest state in the country for lead and copper levels in drinking water.
They will require that, after the year 2025, environmental agencies will have to step in if lead and copper levels reach 12 parts per billion, as opposed to the current federal standard of 15.
Some environmental groups have lauded the new rules — with the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, for example, describing them as “an important step forward in protecting all our drinking water from lead contamination.” “There is no safe amount of lead in drinking water, and no child or senior in Michigan should have lead in their water,” group deputy director Bob Allison said in a press release.
The new rules also mandate utility providers to replace all lead and copper pipes and goosenecks in their service areas by the year 2040, and that 5 percent of those pipes be replaced by 2021.
“I tend to agree with them, although I think the cause is something that certainly needs to be addressed,” Straebel said.
The cost of replacing the pipes could cost millions of dollars for municipalities.
LaMacchia argues that’s a low estimate, only accounting for cities that have above 5 parts per billion of lead in the water.
As such, the Municipal League estimates the cost to be more in the range of $2.5 billion for all municipalities in Michigan.
“This is why this becomes much more than a simple, ‘Let’s take the lead out,’” he said.