{"id":62997,"date":"2026-01-23T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/?post_type=article&#038;p=62997"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:55:11","slug":"annual-lead-in-water-reporting-3","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/annual-lead-in-water-reporting-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Lead in Water Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group hide-on-main\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"taxonomy-action_or_info wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/action_or_info\/action\/\" rel=\"tag\">For Action<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-release_date article-release-date wp-block-post-terms\"><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__prefix\">Published <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/release_date\/2026-01-23\/\" rel=\"tag\">Friday January 23 2026<\/a><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Annual Lead in Water Reporting<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>School districts are required to test lead content in drinking water in their facilities to ensure the water quality meets established health guidelines. Please complete the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/education-training\/k-12\/administration\/capital\/planning\">2025-26 Testing Lead Content in Drinking Water of School Facilities Report<\/a> (in the Publications and Resources section) then submit your report to the <a href=\"mailto:CMB@gov.bc.ca\">Education and Child Care Capital Branch<\/a> by February 28, 2026. Policy and sampling information is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/education-training\/k-12\/administration\/legislation-policy\/public-schools\/testing-lead-content-in-drinking-water\">Testing Lead Content in Drinking Water\u00a0of School Facilities<\/a> web page and the new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/environment\/air-land-water\/water\/water-quality\/drinking-water-quality\/drinking-water-officers-guide\">Drinking Water Officers&#8217; Guide<\/a> provided by Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School districts are required to test lead content in drinking water in their facilities to ensure the water quality meets established health guidelines. Please complete the\u00a02025-26 Testing Lead Content in Drinking Water of School Facilities Report (in the Publications and Resources section) then submit your report to the Education and Child Care Capital Branch by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/annual-lead-in-water-reporting-3\/\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" >Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"action_or_info":[348],"release_date":[1547],"division":[],"target_bulletin":[413],"audiences":[448,323],"sort_order":[],"class_list":["post-62997","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","action_or_info-action","release_date-2026-01-23","target_bulletin-district-dmb","audiences-facility-leads","audiences-secretary-treasurers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/62997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/62997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63002,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/62997\/revisions\/63002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"action_or_info","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/action_or_info?post=62997"},{"taxonomy":"release_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/release_date?post=62997"},{"taxonomy":"division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/division?post=62997"},{"taxonomy":"target_bulletin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/target_bulletin?post=62997"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=62997"},{"taxonomy":"sort_order","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sort_order?post=62997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}