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Melissa Berry's science-fair project exposed an environmental hazard in her school district--but that wasn't enough to win her first prize.

The 12-year-old, who attends Pioneer Park Elementary School in Cheyenne, Wyo., took home second place last month for a project that revealed lead contamination in the drinking water at her school and three others in the Laramie County district.

The 6th grader said she was surprised to find that four of her water samples from 10 schools exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's limit of 15 parts of lead per billion parts of water--including a drinking fountain in her classroom that had a whopping 44.3 parts...

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