The Environmental Protection Agency awarded $887,000 of funding to New Hampshire’s Department of Environmental Services to help schools and child care facilities test their drinking water for lead.Lead can enter water when plumbing materials that.
In 2018, the state adopted a bill to prevent childhood lead poisoning from water and paint that requires schools and child care facilities to test their drinking water in five-year periods.
Additionally, schools and childcare facilities are required to notify parents and develop a mitigation plan if the lead concentration exceeds the EPAs lead action level of 15 parts per billion (ppb).
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