In comments to residents who attend the meeting, Superintendent John Ramos said
Based on the recommendation of our District physician, we
encourage any families who are concerned to speak to your
family physician and ask about any lead testing that
he or she may have conducted for your children.
We are also researching the possibility of arranging for free
lead testing for anyone who, for whatever reason, does not
want to use their personal or family doctor. As a public school
district, we are held to very tight guidelines about how we are able
to spend taxpayer dollars. In addition, we have discovered that labs
have strict guidelines about testing as well. So this is proving to
be more complicated than expected.
We are holding a community Q&A session this Saturday at 10am at
Seth Boyden. Local health officers and experts in lead in drinking
water will be on hand to explain the findings and answer questions
from parents, guardians, students and staff. Free childcare will
be available, so we hope that all concerned community members
will be able to participate.
See his comments and related views from School Board President Elizabeth Baker below:
The district has taken those nine drinking water sources out of service, along with three other drinking fountains at South Orange Middle School after the results of their testing was lost.
But the district had no new information on why the nine sources were found to have high lead levels this year, but not last year when similar tests were done.
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