During normal water-quality testing, officials at the U.S. Navy Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) on Andros Island, the Bahamas, discovered high levels of lead in the water at the guest house.
The single-story building with 10 suites also had pinhole leaks in the 3/8- to 2-inch copper pipes supplying hot water. Maintenance crews stopped the drips with repair couplings, but they had no way of preventing the water from absorbing lead from the solder joints as it sat in the pipes for long periods when the house was vacant.
Replacing the lines using traditional methods would take the building out
