GRANBY, Mass. (WWLP) – Levels of lead above the acceptable amounts have been discovered inside drinking water taps and fountains at two schools in Granby. Interim Superintendent of Schools Dr. Judith Houle issued a letter to community members announcing that five water taps out of the 20 they tested at Granby Junior-Senior High School and the East Meadow School this past fall had higher than the “action level” amount of lead.
In the letter, Houle said that lead is not believed to be in the water source, but rather inside plumbing and fixtures in the school buildings.
The “action level” for lead in Massachusetts is 0.015 milligrams of lead per liter. One of the fixtures, a bubbler in Room 223W at the Junior-Senior High School, tested at a level of 0.097 mg/L. Other taps registered much lower, but four others were still above the action level.
“The administration takes these results very seriously, and is moving immediately to safeguard the health of the students, faculty, and staff,” Houle wrote in the letter.
Houle said that they have shut down all of the five fixtures, with the exception of the kitchen sink at Granby Junior-Senior High School, which is being fushed-out on a daily basis. She says that they are also working closely with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection on the issue.
Click here to read the letter from the Granby Interim Superintendent Dr. Judith Houle
