Tallahassee s Cascades Park
Both the students and city underground utilities determined just a single park fountain was in excess of EPA guidelines.
Elevated lead levels in a Cascades Park drinking fountain has brought a quick response from the City. Tom Flanigan reports the alarm came from two Florida State University environmental science students.
Linda Beauport said she and Kim Watts checked all the park s drinking fountains for elevated lead in the water. It was the fountain closest to Lafayette Street we found some elevated levels there that exceeded the EPA s actionable levels. We found it really interesting because there s not a lot of regulations on park water fountains.