EPA Defends 10-Year Lead Pipe Replacement Mandate, Affirms Utility Authority and Feasibility to Replace All Lead Pipes

Court filing says chemical-treatment failed to prevent widespread lead exposure and confirms utilities have sufficient ...
Daily Herald

Worried about lead pipes? Here’s what to do.

Although lead pipes were banned decades ago, millions of homes still contain them. In fact, lead from water service lines remains one of the leading causes of childhood lead poisoning. Lead is a ...
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Biden-era lead pipe deadline is upheld

The Trump administration said Friday it backs a 10-year deadline for most cities and towns to replace their harmful lead pipes, giving notice that it will support a tough rule approved under the Biden ...
Yahoo

Here’s How to Find Out if You Have Lead Pipes — and What You Can Do About It

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Resources are available for Atlanta-area households to have their water checked for lead exposure. (Getty Images) After a federal ...
Marin Independent Journal

Another View: Why does the U.S. still have lead pipes? Blame this trade group

In October, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a ruling mandating the removal of all lead pipes supplying drinking water in the United States. Whether the rule will survive the incoming Donald ...
Times Union

Even though lead pipes are gone, schools are still testing positive

Sand Creek Middle School does not have lead pipes for its drinking water, yet individual faucets would test positive for an unsafe amount of lead. Officials discovered the problem was lead in the ...
Chicago Sun-Times

How we mapped Chicago’s lead service lines and what we learned

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WDSU

New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board on timeline to replace city's lead pipes

AND WATER BOARD IS NOW ON A TIMELINE TO REPLACE LEAD PIPE. EVERY LEAD PIPE IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. THIS PROJECT MANDATED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, ADDRESSES WHAT THEY CALL A PUBLIC ...
Medicine Buffalo

100 miles of lead pipes supply water to Buffalo

One mistake turned the water taps of Flint, Mich., into streams of suffering back in 2014 – and the same thing could happen in Buffalo or just about any other older community in America. That's ...
WWNO

Get the Lead Out: How New Orleans can reduce toxic heavy metal exposure

Case studies of two cities and a state that faced lead contamination problems may give New Orleans a roadmap to cleaning its ...

Toxic tap: Lead detected in 7 of 10 New Orleans homes amid delayed pipe replacement

Each morning, Katherine Prevost fills her coffee maker with water from her kitchen faucet and presses the button. Until ...
WBEZ

How we mapped Chicago’s lead service lines and what we learned

Chicago has a lead pipe problem. The city estimates that about 412,000 of roughly 491,000 water service lines require replacement because they are known or suspected to contain lead. That’s the most ...