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Okemos updates plan to meet Michigan’s Filter First lead-in-water requirements
Summary
District officials told the board they have installed new filtered drinking fountains, are developing a building-by-building drinking water management plan and expect testing to cost about $10,000 a year while some filtration products and labor estimates remain unresolved.
Okemos Public Schools officials told the board they have largely completed an initial rollout of drinking-water filters and are working through product selection, sampling logistics and ongoing costs to comply with the state’s Filter First law.
Director Brian Lieber summarized the district’s work and said the law, signed in October 2024, requires schools to install lead-reducing filters on at least one drinking water station per 100 building occupants, label all water sources, cap unused sources and test filtered water annually for schools (every two years for childcare centers). “It’s officially occupants,” Lieber said, noting that detail changed from earlier drafts of the law.
The nut graff: The rule will require the district to catalog and label every water source in every school, add or upgrade filters and perform recurring…
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