By ideastream's Brian Bull
The drinking water at a Chagrin Falls elementary school has received a passing grade.
Late last week, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency took water samples from Gurney Elementary after a previous test had shown unacceptable levels of lead. School officials had all drinking fountains shut off and issued bottled water to students and staff.
Today, test results from those samples showed the lead and copper levels to be within federal safety guidelines.
Robert Hunt is the Superintendent for Chagrin Falls Schools.
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Hunt suspects that a lull of activity in the school building over the summer caused copper pipes to corrode, owing to high pH levels in the water.