Lead Detected In Water At Multiple Delaware Schools
Lead Detected In Water At Multiple Delaware Schools
Delaware Health and Social Services reports that lead has been detected in water at nearly 50 Delaware schools, according to a report from Yahoo News.
These findings prompted the Delaware Division of Public Health to advise shutting off at least one school’s drinking water supply in New Castle. That school is Wallace Wallin in Colonial School District.
The school shutoff water throughout the building in the beginning of the school year just last month. Meanwhile using bottled water as the testing and plans for remediation continued, said Ted Lambert, director of facilities for the school district.
“We received the first initial results back in June, and we shut off through guidance by DPH. From there, we shut down the rest of the fixtures that tested high and at that point we shut down the building for drinking water and brought bottled water in at the start of school this year,” he said. “We are still going through testing and waiting for guidance from DPH on what the next steps are.”
The Wallin School is one of 47 schools across the state that tested positive for elevated levels of lead.
Delaware schools with elevated lead levels
- Concord High School
- Brandywine High School
- Mount Pleasant High School
- Forwood Elementary School
- Lancashire Elementary School
- Caesar Rodney High School
- Dover Air Force Base Middle School
- Richard Shields Elementary School
- Milton Elementary School
- Towne Point Elementary School
- William Henry Middle School
- Kent County Secondary ILC
- Fairview Elementary School
- Freire Charter School
- Newark High School
- Gauger-Cobbs Middle School
- Wilson Elementary School
- Glasgow High School
- Christiana High School
- Wallace Wallin School
- Gunning Bedford Middle School
- McCullough Middle School
- Kathleen Wilbur Elementary School
- William Penn High School
- Castle Hills Elementary School
- John G. Leach School
- Long Neck Elementary School
- G.W. Carver Educational Center
- Millsboro Middle School
- Phillip Showell Elementary School
- Ingram Pond Outdoor Educational Facility
- John M. Clayton Elementary School
- Lake Forest North Elementary School
- Laurel High School
- Marshallton High School
- A.I. du Pont High School
- James H. Grove Adult High School
- Cab Calloway School of the Arts
- A.I. du Pont Middle School
- H.B. du Pont Middle School
- Skyline Middle School
- Baltz Elementary School
- Warner Elementary School
- Seaford Middle School
- John Bassett Moore Intermediate School
- Smyrna Middle School
- Woodbridge High School