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Hammond Mayor Tom McDermott estimates that it will cost about $600 million for the city to replace its lead pipes. Of the 25,000 houses in Hammond, he said about 17,000 have lead service lines ...
A cross section of a lead water pipe is displayed under a microscope in a lab at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center in Cincinnati last ...
The Environmental Protection Agency announced last month a goal of replacing 100% of lead pipes within a decade. Lead was a common pipe material before the 1980s, when federal regulators began ...
A lead service line (LSL, also known as lead service pipe, [1] and lead connection pipe [2]) is a pipe made of lead which is used in potable water distribution to connect a water main to a user's premises. Lead exposure is a public health hazard as it causes developmental effects in fetuses, infants, and young children. It also has other health ...
EPA illustration of lead sources in residential buildings Infographic about lead in drinking water. The Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) is a United States federal regulation that limits the concentration of lead and copper allowed in public drinking water at the consumer's tap, as well as limiting the permissible amount of pipe corrosion occurring due to the water itself. [1]
The Environmental Protection Agency distributed about $3 billion to states last year to replace harmful lead pipes based on unverified data, according to an agency inspector general's memo, likely ...
Lead-based house paint banned by the Consumer Product Safety Commission [9] 1986 Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act require new drinking-water waterpipes, solder, and flux to be "lead-free"; however, this is defined as less than 8% lead in pipes, and 0.2% in solder and flux. [10]
The letter says the new rules leave the brunt of the removal cost on homeowners and municipalities. ... Use of lead pipes was banned in the 1980s but, according to the EPA, more than 9 million ...