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Agency's Role Probed in D.C. Water Report

Author May Have Given WASA Final Say in Paper on Lead

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By _Carol D. Leonnig_

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Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, February 13, 2009; Page A01

" .....Editors at the Environmental Health Perspectives journal said author

Tee Guidotti, who was a paid consultant for the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority

and until recently a department chairman in GWU's school of public health,

did not disclose a contract that appears to require that he get WASA's

approval in writing before publishing information about the utility. By policy,

the

journal refuses to consider research that is not free from the control of a

paying sponsor. It is the first time in the journal's 30-year history that it

has conducted such a review, editors said, which could lead to a retraction

of the paper.

When it was published, the paper was cited locally and across the country as

reliable evidence that the city's water hadn't harmed residents. This review

is the second time in recent weeks that those reassurances have been

questioned. A study published recently in the Environmental Science &

Technology

journal by another group of researchers found that lead had spiked to harmful

levels in the blood of hundreds of D.C. children and that thousands more

children could have been harmed. .... "

Sharon

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