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LEAD IN D.C. WATER LEADS TO CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS

Benjamin Grumbles (EPA), Donald Welsh (EPA), Thomas P. Jacobus (Washington Aqueduct) and Glenn S. Gerstell (Chairman of WASA) appear before a House Committee on Government Reform hearing concerning lead in Washington, D.C., drinking water on March 5, 2004, on Capitol Hill. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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