The DeKalb County School District says it will test all of its water sources for lead. Officials say it’s a proactive move and wasn’t prompted by an incident in the school system. DeKalb Superintendent Stephen Green said the district had been conducting random tests, but lately administrators questioned that approach.
“There was that lingering question about whether that actually was comprehensive enough to let us know for sure, and we came away from that discussion feeling that was not adequate and comprehensive enough, and we moved to this level,” Green said at a press conference Tuesday.
The decision comes after the recent water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and after high lead levels were found in school water sources in New York City and Portland, Oregon.
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