A local high school student discovered in November that several drinking fountains in Jersey City public parks contained concerning levels of lead.
Natasha Anderson, a junior at Hoboken High School, took water samples from 28 park drinking fountains in parks across the county for her Advanced Placement Research class project. Five, she found, contained at least traces of lead. Two of the fountains were in Lincoln Park, a county park, two in Liberty State Park and another in Mary McLeod Bethune Park, a city park.
“All of these places were found in public parks that were very heavily trafficked, and they have a lot of children in them,” Anderson said…