Tuesday, January 26, 2016
SEBRING — Sebring schools Superintendent Toni Viscounte today said a drinking fountain outside the high school built in 2002, tested 36 parts per billion, more than three times the amount allowable for lead or copper contaimination, which she found alarming. The allowable amount is 15 ppb.
She is awaiting a conference call from Ohio EPA on water samples collected Sunday, and based on that call and information, she will make a determination of whether schools will reopen Wednesday.
She said if there is lead in wash basins in the rest rooms, and children wash their hands, some cup their hands and drink some of the water. She said that would be hard to monitor, and that is why she has kept the schools closed.
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