Weekly Flint Water Report: April 2-7

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I got tired of waiting for Michigan’s DEQ to post Friday’s water testing result, so here is this week’s Flint water report through Thursday. As usual, I’ve eliminated outlier readings above 2,000 parts per billion, since there are very few of them and they can affect the averages in misleading ways. During the week, DEQ took 368 samples. The average for the past week was 10.07.