It's a stunning reversal from the city about recent testing that found arsenic in the water at a public housing complex in the East Village. Christinafantv reports.
As CBS2's Christina Fan reports, it turns out the water may have been safe to use all this time. The city say the laboratory that provided the initial test results retracted its claims and - even worse - admitted to being the ones that introduced arsenic in the samples.
"There was a long line. It looked like a concert. At one point they said they reached the capacity. I left and came back," said a resident. City officials say they are awaiting a final battery of tests to make absolute sure the water is safe. Results are expected to come in Saturday.
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