Lead Contamination in Drinking Water at Oakland Schools and Other Locales…

 

Lead contamination found in water at 7 Oakland schools                              [Jill TUCKER, San Francisco Chronicle (SF Gate); October 26, 2017]
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Lead-contamination-found-in-water-at-7-Oakland-12310183.php

The thousands of locales where lead poisoning is worse than Flint
(M. B. PELL and Joshua SCHNEYER, Reuters; December 19 2016)
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead-testing/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

Reports and Data:

Childhood Blood Lead Levels – United States, 2007 – 2012
(RAYMOND and BROWN, 2015)
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/wk/mm6254.pdf

N. B.:  Retrieved from Summary of Notifiable NonInfectious Conditions and Disease Outbreaks – United States”; MMWR weekly/Vol. 62/No. 54: pages 76 – 80.)

Lead in Drinking Water and Human Blood Levels in the United States
(BROWN and MARGOLIS, 2012)
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/other/su6104.pdf

Number of Individual Children Screened for Lead, by Highest Level. California 2012
(Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch – California Department of Health)
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/CLPPB/CDPH Document Library/BLL Counts 2012 by LHD final.pdf

Video:

Why Lead Poisoning is So Dangerous (CuriosityList, February 15, 2016)

Websites:

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch
(California Department of Public Health)
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/CLPPB/Pages/CLPPBhome.aspx

Lead
[Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)]
https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/

UPDATE: 

Water Quality in OUSD – Key Info and Test Results
(Oakland Unified School District)
https://www.ousd.org/waterquality

Water Testing Results
[San Francisco Public Schools (SFUSD)]
http://www.sfusd.edu/en/safety-and-emergency-plan/lead-testing/water-testing-results.html

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