ATLANTA – More than 20 Fulton County schools are under a boil-water advisory after a water main break caused low water pressure Tuesday.
The Fulton County schools district said the district was notified about the problem by the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management.
Students at at least one elementary school had to be bussed to another school.
Channel 2’s Audrey Washington spoke to some parents, who were upsest about all the confusion that ensued when their kids were taken to another school.
"The water is out."
Students at one school had to be bussed to another school and that didn’t sit well with some parents.
The story, next.
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Bottled water has been provided to all impacted schools and cafeterias are planning alternate meals that are healthy and ensure safety.
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Harrietsfield resident Marlene Brown, who has been fighting for clean water to drink in the area for more than a decade, said one of her two jobs takes her to an after-school program adjacent to the Harrietsfield school.
But kids have different-sized bottles.
The measures include permanent signage reminders advising students that tap water is not suitable for drinking, and supervision to ensure students don’t drink it.
She said there are no water fountains in the school and bottled water is provided.
“A couple of residents who live out here, they started a ‘We Need Water, Heave Steve’ (sign campaign), against our councillor, Steve Adams.” Wayne Rhyno fears for the health of the 162 students at Harrietsfield Elementary School.
Harrietsfield resident Marlene Brown, who has been fighting for clean water to drink in the area for more than a decade, said one of her two jobs takes her to an after-school program adjacent to the Harrietsfield school.
But kids have different-sized bottles.
The measures include permanent signage reminders advising students that tap water is not suitable for drinking, and supervision to ensure students don’t drink it.
She said there are no water fountains in the school and bottled water is provided.
“A couple of residents who live out here, they started a ‘We Need Water, Heave Steve’ (sign campaign), against our councillor, Steve Adams.”

Harrietsfield resident Marlene Brown, who has been fighting for clean water to drink in the area for more than a decade, said one of her two jobs takes her to an after-school program adjacent to the Harrietsfield school.
But kids have different-sized bottles.
The measures include permanent signage reminders advising students that tap water is not suitable for drinking, and supervision to ensure students don’t drink it.
She said there are no water fountains in the school and bottled water is provided.
“A couple of residents who live out here, they started a ‘We Need Water, Heave Steve’ (sign campaign), against our councillor, Steve Adams.” Wayne Rhyno fears for the health of the 162 students at Harrietsfield Elementary School.
Harrietsfield resident Marlene Brown, who has been fighting for clean water to drink in the area for more than a decade, said one of her two jobs takes her to an after-school program adjacent to the Harrietsfield school.
But kids have different-sized bottles.
The measures include permanent signage reminders advising students that tap water is not suitable for drinking, and supervision to ensure students don’t drink it.
She said there are no water fountains in the school and bottled water is provided.
“A couple of residents who live out here, they started a ‘We Need Water, Heave Steve’ (sign campaign), against our councillor, Steve Adams.”

Harrietsfield resident Marlene Brown, who has been fighting for clean water to drink in the area for more than a decade, said one of her two jobs takes her to an after-school program adjacent to the Harrietsfield school.
But kids have different-sized bottles.
The measures include permanent signage reminders advising students that tap water is not suitable for drinking, and supervision to ensure students don’t drink it.
She said there are no water fountains in the school and bottled water is provided.
“A couple of residents who live out here, they started a ‘We Need Water, Heave Steve’ (sign campaign), against our councillor, Steve Adams.” Wayne Rhyno fears for the health of the 162 students at Harrietsfield Elementary School.
Harrietsfield resident Marlene Brown, who has been fighting for clean water to drink in the area for more than a decade, said one of her two jobs takes her to an after-school program adjacent to the Harrietsfield school.
But kids have different-sized bottles.
The measures include permanent signage reminders advising students that tap water is not suitable for drinking, and supervision to ensure students don’t drink it.
She said there are no water fountains in the school and bottled water is provided.
“A couple of residents who live out here, they started a ‘We Need Water, Heave Steve’ (sign campaign), against our councillor, Steve Adams.”

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality says that the drinking water at a Grand Haven elementary school has tested positive for elevated levels of PFAS contamination.
Students and staff at Robinson Elementary are now being provided with bottled water, after the school and district was notified of the increased levels Monday.
No other schools in the Grand Haven Area Public Schools district tested positive for PFAS.
Principal Jeff Markus tells FOX 17 that he is unaware if neighboring homes or businesses have been tested.
The Ottawa County Health Department says that the combined PFAS and PFOS levels for the school was measured at 110 parts per trillion (ppt).
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Health Advisory Level for combined levels is 70 ppt.
Total levels were recorded at 144 ppt.
The MEDQ has been testing drinking water at all schools that use wells and community water supplies for PFAS since contamination began showing up in wells around the state, including in the Rockford and Belmont areas and in Parchment, Michigan.
PFAS are part of a group of chemicals previously used in manufacturing and firefighting products.
We’ll have more from the school on later editions of FOX 17 News.

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. – Bottled water is being distributed at Robinson Elementary in Grand Haven after test results returned showing elevated levels of PFAS in the water supply.
Initial test results found a combined PFOS/PFOA level of 110 ppt.
The school uses well water, but the supply has been shut off and bottled water is being distributed through the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Emergency Management Division and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Other than Robinson Elementary, all other schools in the Grand Haven Area Public School District are served by Northwest Ottawa Water System.
The GHAPS district will work with the MDEQ, Ottawa County Health Department, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies to determine the next steps, including the source of the contamination and a long-term plan for the water supply at the school.
They’re expected to hold a press conference at 4:45 p.m. We will carry it live here and on our Facebook page.
@wzzm13 — Jaleesa Irizarry (@JaleesaWZZM) October 29, 2018 The PFAS contaminants were found at Robinson Elementary as a part of a statewide study of PFAS levels in groundwater.
The Michigan PFAS Action Response Team has tested 381 schools to date.
Of that number, 266 schools had non-detectable levels of PFAS and 28 schools had levels below 70 ppt.
Read more about how residents have been affected by the contaminants with 13 ON YOUR SIDE’s Water Worries coverage.

Staff and students at Warren Elementary School are drinking bottled water this week while state and school district officials sort out several tests which showed conflicting results as to the levels of the chemical family PFAS that were found in the school’s well last month.
The bottled water is a short-term measure while a longer-term filtration system is put together.
School district officials and school Principal Beth Peterson are hosting a public meeting led by Kimberly Caldwell, environmental analyst with the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), and some others from the state to discuss the water on Tuesday, September 4, at 6 p.m. in the Warren Elementary School cafeteria.
Warren Elementary School and nine others in the state were selected for a pilot program run by the Vermont DEC.
The first test of the Warren Elementary School water showed results as high as 36.6 parts per trillion.
PFAS refers to a large group of compounds used in a variety of industrial processes and found in numerous consumer products including floor cleaners and waxes, nonstick products, cooking utensils and pans, food packaging and stain repellent fabrics.
PFAS can cause harmful effects on the immune system and, in serious cases, various forms of cancer.
Brigid Nease, superintendent of the Harwood Unified Union School District (HUUSD), reported to district parents last week that Warren students would start the week with bottled water.
During that conservation Caldwell reports that the third test is valid and that the state is moving forward with a carbon filtration system in the near term with contractors working on a longer-term solution that needs to be approved by the DEC’s drinking water division.
Caldwell said testing of the water before and after the carbon filtration and permanent solution will continue.

Construction will soon begin on a project that will finally deliver clean drinking water to Nile Garden Elementary School on an ongoing basis.
The Manteca Unified Board of Education voted 6-1 – with trustee Nancy Teicheira dissenting – on Tuesday night to accept the water service agreement between the district, the City of Manteca, and the State of California that will allow for construction of a water hookup to the rural elementary campus that for years has had to provide students with bottled water because of high arsenic levels detected in the well that serves the facility.
Of the $6.4 million needed to complete the long-planned project, $5 million will come from the State of California while the City of Manteca will pick up the remainder of the tab.
The project will further extend the city’s 12-inch waterline half a mile further south to connect to a 4-inch waterline that would be laid beneath the street for the final 1.3 miles to the site.
The project also calls for a 10,000-gallon high-density polyurethane tank, a 270,000-gallon steel tank, two pump stations and additional waterlines.
The project would also drill an additional well on city-owned property that would be equipped with a pump, well head water treatment and electrical service and controls.
Because Nile Garden would initially be the only customer served by the waterline extension, the meter for the school will be located offsite, and gradually moved towards the school if and when development in the area occurs.
According to Manteca Unified Director of Facilities Operations Aaron Bowers, such a process would involve a drastic overhaul of the entire infrastructure that is to be completed in the coming construction project, and any development would not jeopardize the school’s ability to receive clean, fresh drinking water.
Teicheira, who at the end of her current term will have been on the board for two decades, pressed Bowers about whether the city would require annexation of Nile Garden into the city limits in order to connect to the city’s water supply – citing the example of the district’s administrative complex and school farm on Louise Avenue that was forced to annex in order to connect to Manteca’s sewer and water services.
To contact reporter Jason Campbell email jcampbell@mantecabulletin.com or call 209.249.3544.

‘The coliform counts were over the limits,’ says John Cummings of the water issues at Somerset Elementary.
(Jessica Doria-Brown/CBC) Students and staff at Somerset Elementary in Kinkora have been dealing with water restrictions since the middle of last week after tests found elevated coliform counts.
Public Schools Branch.
A new well was dug at the school earlier this spring and tests at that time were good, Cummings said.
But that changed at some point.
No complaints of sickness "The coliform counts were over the limits and what we’re doing now is investigating and hopefully we’ll be able to resolve the issue this summer," Cummings said.
There have been no complaints of sickness from students or staff, said the director.
The school had previously tried to fix its old well, but a new one was recommended and installed at a cost of $7,000 to $8,000, Cummings said.
"I think we’re probably in the early stages of figuring out what the source may be."
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MADISON (WKOW) — Several Madison elementary and middle schools will get "hydration stations" next week in an effort to promote healthy living.
The drinking fountain and water bottle filling stations are from the "Got Water?"
project — a joint effort between Madison Water Utility, the Healthy Kids Collaborative and the Madison Metropolitan School District.
The group hopes the hydration stations will encourage children to drink more water by giving them easy access to refill water bottles.
The hydration stations are a part of Drinking Water Week in Madison schools.
The program runs next week and will highlight the value of safe, reliable drinking water and promote other healthy habits like getting more exercise and cutting back on sugary drinks.
Thanks to the partnership, half of Madison’s elementary schools and three Madison middle schools now have hydration stations.
They started adding stations to schools in 2015.
Schools with stations include Huegel, Leopold, Elvehjem Allis, Lindbergh, Lake View, Orchard Ridge, Falk, Schenk, Gompers, Glendale, Kennedy, Muir, Crestwood, Lapham and Lowell elementary schools and Wright, Sherman and Cherokee Heights middle schools.