After finding cryptosporidium in Baltimore’s Druid Lake Reservoir last week, city officials announced that a subsequent sample returned from the lab today showed “no traces” of the health harming parasite.
But after the contamination incident raised questions about the quality of water in the open-air reservoir, the Department of Public Works (DPW) tonight is still advising immunocompromised individuals not to drink city tap water.
“Although the water remains safe for the general public to consume,” DPW’s evening news release said, “at this time, out of an abundance of caution, the Maryland Department of Health and the Maryland Department of the Environment continues to advise people with severely weakened immune systems to continue to” take precautions:
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