[Brett Le Blanc / Daily Commercial] @JoeOcalaNews Well water is OK but sometimes doesn’t look that way All may be well with Reddick-Collier Elementary School’s drinking water, but the school district will continue providing bottled water to the campus for the time being just to be safe.
That news led the school district to start supplying the school with bottled water, even though the original water wells have never been contaminated.
Last week, district officials told the School Board it was time to shelve the bottled water plan because it leads students, parents and staff to think that the drinking water is not safe.
“I prefer that we keep the bottled water.” School District spokesman Kevin Christian said the district will continue to supply the school with bottled water.
The problem was that the two 4-inch wells did not supply enough water for the school, especially when dishwashers were added and used constantly.
The district decided to drill two new wells, referred to as No.
When tested, those wells showed surface water contamination.
Those last two wells, No.
10, were tested and believed to be fine.
Through it all, the district’s original wells, drilled in 1993, have never shown any signs of surface water contamination.