More than one in four public schools in Onondaga County have reported having at least one drinking-water outlet with elevated lead levels, according to a recently released study.
The study found that 33 of 121 public schools in Onondaga County — all in the suburbs — reported at least one drinking-water outlet dispensing water with lead levels above the state limit of 5 parts per billion.
“It should be zero,” said Lanessa Owens-Chaplin, the director of the racial justice center at New York Civil Liberties Union…