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Introduction

     This being the first blog from Expert Home Inspections (EHI), please allow me to spend a few words (maybe a few more than a few) introducing EHI. We are an almost new company having opened for business just less than a year ago. We are a family owned business located in Macomb County, Michigan. While we do the traditional home inspections, we also offer radon, mold and termite tests; air quality testing; and home energy audits. And in this time of water contamination issues, we also offer water testing and analysis. It is that subject that I would like to talk about today.      Lead in drinking water and (lead in) water in homes in general reached national news and the attention of our nation over the “Flint Water Crisis” in 2014 when the City changed their source of drinking water from Lake Huron and the Detroit River to the Flint River. Young children, infants and fetuses are most vulnerable to lead. The negative effects of lead in children a...