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1 OUSD Water Quality Issues
Education Partnership CommitteeSeptember 30, 2024
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2 Our Vision
All OUSD students will find joy in their
academic experience while graduating
with the skills to ensure they are
caring, competent, fully-informed,
critical thinkers who are prepared for
college, career, and community
success.
Our Mission
Oakland Unified School District (OUSD)
will build a Full Service Community
District focused on high academic
achievement while serving the whole
child, eliminating inequity, and
providing each child with excellent
teachers, every day.
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Water Testing in OUSD and Response
Board Developed BP 3511.3 Clean Water Policy
2017-18 AB 746 - Potable water systems: lead testing: schoolsites.
The Board of Education lowered OUSD's threshold for removing a fixture from service, reducing it from the federal and state action level of 15 ppb to 5 ppb. ● Communication requirements:○ Removing fixture from service○ Notification to constituents w/in 24 hours○ Returning fixture to service after test of less than 5 ppb.● District began Installation of Hydration Station FloWater / Britta / Etc) at each site using a grant so that all staff and students would have continuous access to clean and safe drinking water. ● Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax from City of Oakland ($371,000) and Measure A from the County ($100,000) supported installation of Flowater stations. ● During COVID OUSD used $635K of ESSER funding to replace or add 85 new FloWater systems to our schools as we started a replacement cycle for the original investment
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OUSD is a Historical District in the State
The 17 oldest
schools in
OUSD.
The Median
school is
Urban
Promise
Academy that
was built in
1949.
Notes: The schools listed on this table may have had partial facilities work. The schools have been identified on the year they were built and opened based on Jacobs Database
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First Round of Testing-Spring and Summer
Testing began at 40 sites in Spring 2024 and throughout the summer.
Overall, the test results fall into one of three categories:
1. 83% (897 fixtures) 5 ppb or lower (under the District’s limit)
2. 10.7% (116 fixtures) tested above 5 ppb and below the state and federal limit of 15 ppb
3. 6.5% (70 fixtures) tested higher than the State and Federal Limit of 15 ppb All the fixtures that tested below the District’s limit are in service.
We have taken all fixtures that show elevated levels (in categories 2 & 3) out of service until they are repaired and retested with results at or below 5 ppb. As of Friday (9/13/2024), we have repaired 200 fixtures and are now waiting to be re-tested before being returned online. 6 6
Routine Testing
Fresh
Purified
Water
Plumbing
Fixture
and Angle
Stop
Replacement
Primary Focus
Providing Access to
Clean Filtered Water
34/60 New Flowater Systems
have already been installed.
OUSD intends on purchasing
another 88 Flowater Systems
to improve access to water
sources.
OUSD has over 4500 water fixtures across the
district and are beginning to use the testing data
to assess the overall cost to address the problem.
Projected potential cost is between $16M-$53.2 M
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THANK YOU
Any Questions?
Additionally, for more information, please reach out:
Preston Thomas
Chief Systems & Services Officer
[email protected]
Curtiss Sarikey
Chief Partnerships Officer
[email protected]
Community Schools, Thriving Students
www.ousd.org @OUSDnews
1000 Broadway, Suite 300, Oakland, CA 94607
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