Fewer Tests for Lead in 2010

There will be fewer tests looking for lead in the town of Fort Frances' drinking water next year.

A lack in the number of samples exceeding provincial standards for lead is allowing the town to reduce its sampling from 54 sites to 25.

It will still cost the municipality about 34-thousand dollars for four rounds of testing.

Of the nearly 350 samples taken in 2009, only eight showed higher than normal levels of lead.