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Hillsborough County 6th grader starts bottled water drive

"The water came from different people and like, companies, " Anthony said.
He’s collecting water to distribute to schools across Hillsborough County after the county started testing for lead in the water.
They have to test 1,800 faucets, fountains and fixtures, twice a day.
"We are still doing samples at schools.
We expect to be done with those by mid-September and then we will be doing all the rest of the schools and we expect all of it to be done by November," said Tanya Arja, with the school district.
Anthony is delivering water out of an abundance of caution.
His grandmother said the idea started on day one.
"The first of school when the students came with no bottled water and he asked the kids, ‘do you have any water’ and they said, ‘no.’
District officials have gotten a handful of positive results from their tests, but say none at harmful levels and none at actual drinking faucets.
They recommend that a fixture over 20 parts per billion, that they would be taken out of service.

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