The most concerning news from the new testing showed 14 of 93 tests inside Doyle Ryder Elementary School registered lead levels of 15 ppb or more with two sites registering more than 100 ppb.
"Until we get through (school testing) we don’t want any of this to go away.
Flint schools Superintendent Bilal Tawwab issued a statement to MLive-The Flint Journal, saying the district "is eager to continue our work with the state, the mayor’s office, medical experts and Flint residents to analyze and continue water testing moving forward."
"These results offer a good baseline from which we hope to see continued improvements in water quality in the district," Tawwab’s statement says.
"At this point, MDEQ hasn’t been granted access into Flint Community Schools (buildings) to conduct the flushing and testing we’ve been able to complete at all of the other charter and parochial schools, day cares, and elder care facilities" in the city, said Tiffany Brown, a spokeswoman for the department, in an email to MLive-The Flint Journal.
The DEQ said follow-up testing will continue at Doyle Ryder and other Flint schools to find and fix high lead readings.
"This is the first of three rounds of testing, and we will be conducting additional follow up and testing … (The) purpose/reason testing of the schools was so important was so that we could identify any potential issues and address them," DEQ spokeswoman Tiffany Brown said in an email to The Journal.
Water samples are being collected before and after water is flushed in the schools, according to the DEQ.
"Pre-flush samples are samples where we don’t know how long the water has been stagnate/sitting (it could be one day, week, one month, one year)," Brown said in her email.
In a news release Tuesday, the DEQ says that in addition to 97.2 percent of tests having less 15 ppb or less of lead, 96.2 percent were at or below 10 ppb, 92.6 percent were at or below 5 ppb — the standard for bottled water, and 66.7 percent of tests showed no lead.