THE FIRST WEEKS of school meant fresh supplies of pens, notebooks and bottled water for children in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood — along with a weary skepticism among parents that high lead levels found in drinking water at two elementary schools will be eradicated anytime soon.
Under California law, every preschool located within an elementary school was required to test lead levels of its drinking water by Jan. 1, 2023. The law applied to 25 preschools in the San Francisco Unified School District. Six reported lead levels above the state’s limit of 5 parts per billion. This caused the district to test every drinking faucet in those elementary schools.
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