Northview High Water Tests Safe; School Returns To Normal Water Use

September 21, 2015

The Escambia County Health Department said Monday morning that the water supply at Northview High School is safe, and the school has retured to regular water use.

Last Wednesday, Principal Gayle Weaver said a device known as a “backflow preventer” failed, allowed a chemical being used to test the system to flow backwards into the fresh water supply in a very diluted state.

From the time of the incident Wednesday through the close of school Friday, students were not allowed to drink the water or wash their hands. The school district provided hand sanitizer and bottled water for students to use, and the water was not used in food preparation.

Multiple samples of the water were tested Thursday and Friday. Those tests took days to complete in the laboratory, with the results first available Monday morning.

According to Escambia County School District Public Relations Coordinator Kim Stefansson, all water tests came back as safe.

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