{"id":247031,"date":"2026-04-01T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247031\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:01:12","slug":"most-drinking-water-in-oakland-schools-safe-from-high-lead-levels-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247031\/","title":{"rendered":"Most drinking water in Oakland schools safe from high lead levels \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lead contamination crisis in faucets and fountains across the Oakland Unified School District is nearly resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 18 months, elevated levels of lead have been found in aging pipes at dozens of schools, exceeding district standards.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, schools have had to provide bottled water.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders recently said just two faucets remain out of service across the district, according to The Oaklandside, citing a facilities meeting.<\/p>\n<p>A new dashboard launched in March on the district\u2019s website to keep families informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lead contamination crisis in faucets and fountains across the Oakland Unified School District is nearly resolved. Over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-247031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}