Lead has been found in water tests at a public school in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Four sinks and one faucet in the Crocker Farm Elementary School will not be use when school starts this week after tests found elevated lead levels.
Amherst school officials said in a press release Monday that an investigation is underway but it is believed the lead is not in the school’s primary water source.
The water was tested under a program announced earlier this year by the Massachusetts DEP Commissioner Martin Suuberg.
" We really want to make sure we have a good system of making sure we know how water quality is in all the public school buildings," Suuberg explained when he announced $2 million last April to test the water in schools.
179 of the state’s more than 350 school systems tested their water under the voluntary program
