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To address lead in drinking water head-on, Zurn Elkay’s Fountains for Youth Program provides filtered bottle filling stations to school districts in areas where lead and/or PFAS (forever chemicals) levels are high and resources are low. We seek partnerships with districts where we can significantly improve students’ access to cleaner, safer drinking water, especially within elementary schools.
In celebration of our 125th anniversary, we returned to our roots in Erie by partnering with Erie's Public Schools to donate 50 bottle filling stations and five years' worth of filters totaling just under $200,000*. All faucets in EPS's Culinary Center were retrofitted to Elkay filtration, using donated conversion kits and filter cartridges, ensuring long-term access to filtered water for nearly 10,000 students, faculty, and staff. Additionally, Zurn Elkay donated 30 bottle fillers with filters and 30 additional filters to Syracuse City School District, in response to reports of elevated lead levels in local water systems.
We collaborated with Freshwater Future, a Michigan-based nonprofit, to help bring cleaner, safer drinking water to more children in areas where lead levels in drinking water are high and the community's resources to solve for that are low. Through this partnership, Zurn Elkay donated 30 filtered Elkay Avado faucets, which were distributed by Freshwater Future to residences in Toledo, Ohio, and in Detroit, Benton Harbor and Flint, Michigan.
*Based on fair market value (FMV) at the time the donation was made. The IRS defines FMV as the price that inventory, products or certain professional services would sell for on the open market between a company and its direct customers or clients.