Booker left Newark years before water lead levels spiked, but what happened under his watch?

[TexasTowelie]

Newark’s escalating water crisis has focused unwelcome attention on Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker’s tenure as mayor and his stewardship of the city’s troubled water system long before lead levels spiked in the drinking water.

Problems in the city reached new heights last week when officials began a mass-scale distribution of more than 70,000 cases of bottled water.

Booker, who led Newark as mayor from 2006-2013, left before elevated lead levels were first discovered in the water supply in 2017. City-wide tests in 2015, two years after he was elected to the U.S. Senate, showed no problems and his campaign has rejected all assertions that he shared any blame for it.

In a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week, Booker asked for “immediate assistance” and help supplying bottled water for Newark residents.

Read more: https://www.nj.com/essex/2019/08/booker-left-newark-years-before-water-lead-levels-spiked-but-what-happened-under-his-watch.html