Bally’s AC claims it doubted the accuracy of the initial reports but admits this does not justify its inaction.
Bally’s Atlantic City did not notify its guests that the water in its high roller suite elsewhere contained potentially dangerous quantities of lead for over 6 months after it had been made aware of the fact, in accordance with a report by the New York Post.
In late August 2015, a lab that is independent water from 20 sources at the home and found that seven of these included unhealthy quantities of lead. The VIP suite had 17.8 micrograms per liter, notably higher than the acceptable level that is maximum of micrograms per liter.
Alarmingly, the lab discovered that water in the janitor’s wardrobe measured 1,300 micrograms per liter, significantly more than 86 times the level that is safe.
‘I’ve never ever seen 1,300 in 15 years,’ Garth Moyle, deputy executive director of the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority, told the Post. ‘I don’t think Rome that is ancient had like this.’
DEP Dawdling
Bally’s passed the findings of this report onto New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which sat it eventually sent a letter of non-compliance to Bally’s operator, Caesars on them until February when.
In the interim, despite having knowledge that is full of report, Caesars neglected to do any such thing until it received the letter through the DEP. Then, and just then, a (more…)