Emilia Teasdale reports in The Columbia Paper Ichabod Crane School Board Facilities Director Steven Marotta assured parents at a recent school board meeting that water tested in the schools is safe from lead contamination, but copper had been detected in the some of the samples tested. The school district is talking with the Village of Valatie about the dosing system used to treat water at the plant, as the school gets its water from the village municipal system at the end of the village water line. The school may have to treat the water if the village can’t solve the problem on their end. Four water fountains and sinks in the high school showed elevated levels of copper. The school board meets next at 7 p.m. Tuesday, December 6 in high school library. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.