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April 29, 2016

Lead found in 6 more schools in Tacoma

SEATTLE (AP) — Tacoma school officials says a review of previous water quality tests has found six more public elementary schools with unsafe amounts of lead in scattered sources of drinking water.

District officials said Thursday that tests done between 2013 and this year show Birney, Browns Point, Larchmont, Point Defiance, Whitman and Downing elementary schools had between one and five faucets or drinking fountains with water that tested slightly above acceptable levels.


 
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