Many American cities have been excavating water mains, revealing lead pipes and leaving them there. The work’s disruption of the pipe can also spike lead levels, an investigation by The Associated Press has found.
My city was the first in the US to completely eliminate lead pipes. It had prohibited the installation of new lead pipes in 1928, but had allowed those already in place to remain. In 2001 a law was passed requiring all lead pipes to be replaced, including those that belonged to property owners. The city paid half the cost for homeowners as well as replacing all of its own lead pipes. The project was completed in 2012.
I’m proud to live in a place that looked at the science and fixed the problem, despite the cost.
It cost almost 20 million, although that was spread out over the decade it took to do all the work. That’s still a lot for a city of just under 300K people.
My city was the first in the US to completely eliminate lead pipes. It had prohibited the installation of new lead pipes in 1928, but had allowed those already in place to remain. In 2001 a law was passed requiring all lead pipes to be replaced, including those that belonged to property owners. The city paid half the cost for homeowners as well as replacing all of its own lead pipes. The project was completed in 2012.
I’m proud to live in a place that looked at the science and fixed the problem, despite the cost.
That’s pretty neat. It must have cost a fortune to get that done.
It cost almost 20 million, although that was spread out over the decade it took to do all the work. That’s still a lot for a city of just under 300K people.