New York City Map of Schools With Lead Tainted Water

Public school parents in New York City have received letters that their children’s schools tested positive for lead. 

This is the second round of water testing the city has done this year. 

Below is a map by WNYC from their feature article found herehttp://www.wnyc.org/story/wnyc-map-lead-contamination-water-fountains-nyc-public-schools/

Reports show nine times as many water sources tested above the EPA’s “action level” of 15 parts per billion (ppb) compared to tests conducted just a year ago.

Darker points correspond to a higher level of lead found at a single water fountain in the building. Larger points correspond to more water fountains found with lead.

Read it All Here at WNYC http://www.wnyc.org/story/wnyc-map-lead-contamination-water-fountains-nyc-public-schools/


See Another Story In the WNYC Report from
http://www.wnyc.org/story/most-new-york-city-schools-have-not-tested-their-water-decade


“The conventional wisdom used to be that the plumbing lead release would only get better with time," Edwards said. “And so, back in the day, when schools sampled once and they went in and fixed all the problematic fixtures, they thought was this problem was done forever. We now know that this conventional wisdom is completely wrong."