On Monday, the City of Aransas Pass announced that between December 2021 and October, it failed to submit its Initial Lead Service Line Inventory (ILSLI).
The ILSLI is an inventory of every service line in a distribution system, including both utility-owned and customer-owned lines, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Each must be categorized as either lead, non-lead, galvanized requiring replacement, or lead status unknown.
“It gets very scary and you start asking, ‘What, is something wrong? Something’s wrong? Should I not be drinking water?’ But the thing is that, right now, our water is safe to drink,” Public Works Director David Flores Jr. told KRIS 6…