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Tag: School lead filters

Lead-removal filters for Orleans Parish school kitchens on tap next

The district's three-year long project to install lead-removal filters at school drinking fountains is nearly complete. Charter schools will be in charge of replacing those filters. The district is now exploring kitchen filters.
by Marta Jewson September 4, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

Nearly all school water fountains have lead-removal filters, district says

Three years after the district first promised to test for lead in school water, 95 percent of drinking fountains have lead-removal filters.
by Marta Jewson July 31, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

Orleans schools drop plans to install antimicrobial filters, focusing on lead

After nearly a year of delays due to low water pressure issues, the district is giving up on microbe-removing filters and focusing on lead removal.
by Marta Jewson June 12, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

Lead-removal filter project drags on as school district deals with water pressure

More than half of schools with water filters have at least some that are not working. The district has known about low water pressure problems since September.
by Marta Jewson May 2, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

Lead filter installation now nearly complete at Plessy Community School

The move comes one week after a 7th-grader’s water test prompted action. Dozens of other New Orleans public schools are still waiting for lead filters.
by Marta Jewson April 4, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

School district delays lead water filter installation at French Quarter school

Orleans district promised Monday installation at Plessy after a test performed by a student found possible contaminants. But the filters won’t work properly without booster pumps. The district says about 16 schools need the pumps.
by Marta Jewson April 1, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

New Orleans 7th grader’s lead test results prompt district to speed up filter installation at French Quarter school

The district’s pledge to install filters in all schools has been delayed several times.
by Marta Jewson March 29, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

New Orleans schools again push back deadline to finish lead filter installation

The district has installed filters in 30 schools, fewer than half of the city's public schools. That’s three sites shy of its December goal.
by Marta Jewson February 14, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

One-quarter of city schools now have filters to remove lead from water

The installations won’t be done until the spring of 2019, nearly three years after the school districts first promised to test for lead.
by Marta Jewson November 27, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019

Installation of water filters to screen lead will begin this week, Orleans school district says

The long-awaited filters come more than two years after the district promised to test school water for lead.
by Marta Jewson August 23, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019

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