Lead in Water

The EPA has a new consumer tool to help you determine if your home water filter removes lead.

The EPA has a new consumer tool to help you determine if your home water filter removes lead.

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Click the image below to read the full guide on the EPA’s site, or click THIS LINK for a full downloadable PDF of the two-page info-sheet. Once you have taken a look at it, please do let me know if you have any questions. Standards to know in looking for efficient water filtration: 15 Parts…

My response to the school Vice Principal this evening. (Warning: I’m MAD! This is my kids [& their friends] we’re talking about.)

My response to the school Vice Principal this evening. (Warning: I’m MAD! This is my kids [& their friends] we’re talking about.)

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Introduction:  My husband has concerns that I am a bull in a china shop when it comes to this issue. He thinks I should be treating the administrators of our children’s schools with respect because they are fellow human beings with the capacity to do good. I on the other hand am FURIOUS that after…

2018 Lead Levels in Portland Public Schools, Sellwood Middle School Are NOT protective of children’s health.

2018 Lead Levels in Portland Public Schools, Sellwood Middle School Are NOT protective of children’s health.

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I am posting this so that I can link this information to other posts I have written on the subject. Below you will find the lead-in-water test results for 2018 for Sellwood Middle School. Please click each of the images below to see the image full size. The RED circles I have made highlight the…

Letter to the Portland Public School District This Morning Re: Lead in PPS Schools’ Water

Letter to the Portland Public School District This Morning Re: Lead in PPS Schools’ Water

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Note: I wrote this post in response to my child coming home distraught – in tears, actually – over the cavalier attitudes/misplaced and absolute confidence of nearly all of the adults who whom he has interacted with at school regarding this issue. While my tone may seem inappropriate and my anger may seem misplaced to some, for me…

Every Spring the City of Portland, Oregon water bill includes a warning notice about Lead in the water (a notice that no one ever seems to read.)

Every Spring the City of Portland, Oregon water bill includes a warning notice about Lead in the water (a notice that no one ever seems to read.)

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Published May 5, 2017 Updated: February 28, 2022 [Scroll to bottom for the Rubin Family current [February 2022] water bill.] Below are FOUR of my actual water bills from the City of Portland (colors and circles and arrows added by me for emphasis!). The first one is from when I originally published this post in May…

Portland Public Schools Bond – Lead Crusade

Portland Public Schools Bond – Lead Crusade

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My family received this in the mail yesterday (4/27/2017). It is a political mass mailing about the 2017 Portland Public Schools Bond Measure 26-193, coming up for a vote next month (here in Portland, Oregon – USA.) I will be writing a blog post about my thoughts in response to this bond this weekend and will link…

Map: Find the Lead-Tainted Water Fountains in NYC Schools

Map: Find the Lead-Tainted Water Fountains in NYC Schools

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Click the image below to read the full story! Published March 30, 2017 There are two easy ways you can support my advocacy work if you want to help: 1) Click on the suggested Amazon product links to the right (on this page) before you start your Amazon shopping! You don’t even have to buy any of…

Alabama to test all public schools’ drinking water for lead contamination

Alabama to test all public schools’ drinking water for lead contamination

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Click the image below to read the full story! Published March 22, 2017 There are two easy ways you can support my advocacy work if you want to help: 1) Click on the suggested Amazon product links to the right (on this page) before you start your Amazon shopping! You don’t even have to buy any…

After therapy dog refuses to drink, San Diego Unified finds lead in water

After therapy dog refuses to drink, San Diego Unified finds lead in water

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Click the image below to read the full story! Published March 24, 2017 There are two easy ways you can support my advocacy work if you want to help: 1) Click on the suggested Amazon product links to the right (on this page) before you start your Amazon shopping! You don’t even have to buy any…

#AskTamara: What kind of water filtration system do you have in your home?

#AskTamara: What kind of water filtration system do you have in your home?

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Introduction (for those new to this website): Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF testing (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)…

#AskTamara: We found leaded plumbing in our newer home! What should we do?

#AskTamara: We found leaded plumbing in our newer home! What should we do?

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Originally Published June 18, 2014 Question from June 8, 2014 from Sarah (Via Facebook.) QUESTION: Dear Tamara, Hello! So update: we bought some lead testing kits and tested all of my daughters toys. Nothing came up BUT we randomly tested our water pipes and bingo! It looks like the solder is lead. Test came up positive…