Today is the last day for Education Minister Zach Churchill to fulfill his modified commitment to publish the results of water testing for lead in Nova Scotia's schools: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/province-house/province-breaks-commitment-to-publish-results-of-schools-lead-testing-union-raises-concerns-about-availability-of-drinking-water/ https://twitter.com/withwozney/status/1311284351951425536

Update: The department has posted the results https://www.ednet.ns.ca/water-test-results

They're in PDF format with each regional centre for education in a different file. This will take a while, but I'll put it all together and analyze the results. Stay tuned.

I'm just going to post some findings as I go here.

The worst result in the Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education is 20 mg/L, or 20,000 parts per billion -- 4,000 times the Health Canada maximum. That result came from the "gym office" in Central Kings Rural High School.

A result from the science lab at Horton High School tested at 7.7 mg/L, or 7700 parts per billion -- 1,540 times the Health Canada maximum.

A result from the "Senior Gym-Boys Locker Room" at Central Kings Rural tested 4.3 mg/L -- 860 times the Health Canada guideline.

There were 2,162 tested conducted at AVRCE schools. 1,028 -- or 47.5% -- exceeded.

Results for 239 tests showed 0 mg/L. Results for 895 came back with an allowable level of lead.

Out of 40, the only AVRCE school without at least one failed test for lead isn't really a school, it's the Middleton School Bus Garage.

Thread paused while I feed my kid and put him to bed.

I just deleted a number of tweets from this thread after noticing some errors in the datasets. Will continue after fixing.