Do kids really use drinking fountains, John Curley asks

KIRO Radio’s John Curley says it is hard to believe Tacoma students are drinking enough water from the water fountains at school to get lead poisoning. That, he says, is because of how little he sees children drinking water in the first place.

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“Very few kids drink out of the water fountains,” Curley said. “I would say most [fountains] are broken or you have to make out with them to get any water out.”

That means, according to Curley, there’s a “good chance” that the children who attend the six schools found with high levels of lead in the drinking water probably aren’t being poisoned.

But Tacoma Public Schools isn’t taking any risk. The district continues to test the water. In the meantime, the school district has ordered bottled water, shut off all water sources, and blocked access to the schools’ drinking fountains.

The district is now trying to determine how, and why, test results showing high lead contamination sat without being reviewed for nearly a year.

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