The grade is based in part on test results that two years showed than half of school bubblers and faucets had some amount of lead. Skip to content. NOWCAST NewsCenter 5 at 11.

The city tested water from 25 bubblers. A bubbler near Room 25, and bubblers near Rooms 32 and 33 tested at 1.4, 1.1 and 3.8 ppb on the first tests, with levels falling below 1 ppb on the second ...

Four of the affected outlets are bubblers while the majority are classroom water lines. "The bubblers that I mentioned here are old-school, lean over, back-in-the-day water bubblers," McLaughlin said.

A new study published by the PennEnvironment Research and Policy Center claims nine school districts — including Altoona Area — are failing to protect children from lead in school drinking water.

"We should eliminate ALL background sources of their possible exposure to lead, including drinking water fountains and bubblers at daycare centers, preschools and schools," Woolf said. MASSPIRG and ...

Local News School drinking water has improved slightly in Mass., but legislators say it’s not enough Massachusetts earned a C- in a new report on lead contamination in school drinking water.

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.

PORTSMOUTH — The city school district will retest water outlets throughout all its schools after 41 taps were found to have elevated lead levels by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental ...

Massachusetts made slight improvement over the past four years in its efforts to remove lead from school drinking water, and environmental advocates believe proposed legislation would send the Bay ...