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Drinking water at 1 in 4 California child-care centers tests dangerously high for lead. The results mark the first time in state history that child-care facilities have been required to test for lead.
Centers built before 2010 are required to test all faucets and drinking fountains, per Assembly Bill 2370. If levels are above five parts lead per billion particles, they have to be fixed.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced a total of $26 million in funding for states and territories to ...
Tim Davis with the Division Of Drinking Water is overseeing a monumental task of testing every water fountain in every school in the state. So far, DDW has tested almost all of them.
The Madison School District voluntarily tested the water in drinking fountains of schools last month and discovered higher-than-acceptable levels of lead in 14 of the 156 fixtures.
A major Northern California school district disclosed Monday that nearly 200 of its drinking fountains and water faucets have elevated lead levels and that parents were wrongly kept in the dark.
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. (7News) — 7News wants to know why it's taken Prince George's County Public Schools 19 years to supply safe, lead-free, and filtered water at fountains on each floor ...