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Health & Safety: Water Testing
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The purpose of this program is to ensure, to the extent feasible, that the water use for consumption in New York City’s (NYC) public schools meet the Federal acceptable lead in drinking water level of equal or less than 0.020mg/L (< 0.020mg/L) set by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Lead in Drinking Water in Schools and Non- Residential Buildings (EPA 812-B-94-002 April 1994).
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Lead in drinking water program for New York City public schools
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This program manual demonstrates how the water use for consumption in NYC’s
public schools will be tested and how lead contamination problems will be
addressed if found. In addition, this program manual outlines the interim
preventive measures that the NYC Department of Education (DOE) is taking to
reduce the potential of lead in dinking water exposure to its buildings
occupants. Furthermore, this manual provides procedures under which the test
results will be reported and made available to students, parents, teachers,
school principals and custodian engineers.
This program manual is intended for use by school official and personnel
responsible for the maintenance and/or safety of the DOE facilities and by the
DOE consultants and laboratories performing the water sampling and analysis.
Click Here to download a copy
of the program manual
Click
Here to visit The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene: The Lead
Poisoning Prevention Program
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© 2004 The Division of School Facilities
44-36 Vernon Boulevard Long Island City, NY 11101 Phone: (718) 349-5799
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