MARQUETTE, MI-- Marquette Area Public Schools officials say they’ve found higher-than-recommended levels of lead in the drinking water of some of the district’s schools.
Superintendent William Saunders says in light of NMU’s efforts to address water issues he decided to be proactive and test MAPS water for copper and lead.
TriMedia collected samples and sent them to a downstate lab. Saunders says all copper levels came back below the recommended limits. Schools whose fixtures showed lead levels above the federal limit of 15 parts per billion included Sandy Knoll, Bothwell, Graveraet, and Vandenboom. No results from the high school have come back yet.
Saunders says TriMedia will conduct another, more precise, test to better determine the source of the lead. He adds officials are mobilizing all resources to fix the issues before school starts in September.
