Parents, council clash over school water supply

Published February 13, 2008 5:00am ET



Parents want to know why Forest Hill Elementary School keeps paying to filter potentially hazardous chemicals from well water when a county water main sits just down the road.

Since late 2006, the water at the school on Rocks Road has been filtered for methyl tertiary butyl ether, a gasoline additive now showing up in groundwater around the state.

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