Lead in water
Time for action on school test results By Dorothy Wigmore What’s on your to-do list for the new school year? Consider checking your district’s lead in drinking water test…
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September 4, 2025
What’s in your water? Part 2: Getting things fixed, reducing toxins
By Dorothy Wigmore The stories about New Jersey’s widespread problems with toxins in drinking water can be scary. Some contaminants—such as well-known lead and the newer poly- and perfluoroalkyl (PFAS)…
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January 1, 2020
What’s in your water?
Part One: Identifying the hazards By Dorothy Wigmore Tap water is just fine, usually. However, it can be polluted by industrial, household, commercial, military, agricultural and pharmaceutical sources. Systems themselves…
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December 1, 2019
Districts now required to test lead in drinking water
Published in the January 2017 NJEA Review By Adrienne Markowitz and Eileen Senn In response to mounting pressure on the Christie administration, the first steps are finally being taken to…
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January 7, 2017
Insist New Jersey schools test their water and get the lead out
Published in the May 2016 NJEA Review by Adrienne Markowitz and Eileen Senn Media coverage in the past year of the debacle in Flint, Michigan dramatically raised national awareness about lead…
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May 1, 2016