Mom & Dad are looking at buying a house and the water test came back with an elevated level of arsenic. Standard is .010 ppb and the test shows .017ppb. I'll call it almost double the EPA's new standard adopted in 2002. The old standard was .050 ppb and that was adopted in 1942.
What do ya think??? Walk away from the deal??? Try a new well and hope for the best??? The sellers would obviously have to accept participating in the fix(if they choose). My parents like the land(28 acres) and the like house(built 1996). It's the first deal they've really liked in almost a year of looking.
Some type of distillation or filtration is a possibility but not an acceptable method to solve the problem long term. Changing the source of water is really the only acceptable method of solving the problem. City water is not available.
I'm leaning towards walking away. They don't HAVE to buy this house. They WANT to buy it. Would you take the risk??? Thanks Chuck