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Even if they’re not made of lead, your old water lines could be a health hazard, and starting this year, many homeowners in ...

Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic lead service lines, the underground pipes that connect buildings to the city’s water supply. The city has the most lead service lines in the ...

A Greater Cincinnati Water Works crew replacing a service line with a new copper pipe. Greater Cincinnati Water Works replaced more than 1,600 lead service lines over the past year, about 30% more ...

Lead plumbing was banned in the United States in 1986, but new data assembled by Connecticut’s water utilities show there may still be thousands of lead pipes carrying water into homes, apartments and ...

The U.S. Army Garrison (USAG) Hawaii has updated the Lead Service Line Inventories (LSLI) required by U.S. EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Revisions for its water systems and are now available for review.

The city of Elgin plans to remove 900 more lead water service lines in 2026, targeting properties south of Larkin Avenue and east of McLean Boulevard. That will bring the total to nearly 4,339 by the ...

A construction worker works on dislodging an old lead line in the basement of a house before his colleague pulls it out using an excavator. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror This story is part of CT ...

Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic lead service lines, the underground pipes that connect buildings to the city’s water supply. The city has the most lead service lines in the ...

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