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25 | On March 24, 2023 at 1:47 PM, Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) April Cowan conducted an unannounced, case management inspection for the Action Level Exceedance (ALE) of Lead in Child Care Center's water. LPA met with the director, Karla Cianci for this inspection. The purpose of the inspection was explained.
Present director, 28 staff, and 128 children in care.
LPA discussed the new Assembly Bill (AB) 2370, Chapter 676, Statutes of 2018 requires the Lead Testing of water in the Child Care Center with the site director during the inspection. All Child Care Centers that are located in buildings constructed before January 1, 2010, must have their water tested and post the results by January 1, 2023, and every 5 years after the date of the first testing.
The facility received the ALE report from the Vendor on 4/6/23. Test results for this facility that exceeded a higher level of parts per billion (ppb) allowed, 5.5 ppb. The facility was proactive in getting facility faucets tested and disabling faucets rendering them unusable. Facility has removed handles to faucets with an excedance. The facility is waiting for school to be out before having the plumber come out and fix faucets.
Per director, plumbers will be replacing the remaining faucets the first week of June, 2023. The facility has multiple other fountains and faucets from for clean water and will use them.
Once the faucets are installed, the facility will be flushing the fixture as instructed by the certified water samplers. The facility will be scheduling a retest with the certified water samplers three weeks after the flush has been done. The facility is planning to utilize the affected fixtures once they are repaired.
* See next page for deficiency cited today |