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Board member presses for public water testing after reports of brown water at Carthage Elementary
Summary
Board member David Hensley said he pushed state and county testing after what he described as years of inaction over cloudy/brown drinking water at Carthage Elementary; Superintendent Tim Locklear said custodians flush fountains weekly and shared that the town tested the water in May.
Board member David Hensley pushed the Moore County Board of Education on June 30 to force public testing and public reporting of drinking-water results after reports of brown or cloudy water at Carthage Elementary.
Hensley told the board he took what he described as “unilateral action” with other elected officials to ask regulatory authorities to test district water and to pursue legislation requiring routine school testing statewide. “No more should students and faculty and staff be drinking untested water,” he said.
The matter matters because parents and staff rely on district assurances that school water is safe. Hensley said…
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