As the Biden administration makes billions of dollars available to remove millions of dangerous lead pipes that can contaminate drinking water and damage brain development in children, some states are turning down funds. [PBS News Hour and the Chicago Tribune]. A cut pipe is pulled from a dig site for lead testing in Royal Oak, Michigan. Lead can… Read more »
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My Chicago neighbors and I have lived with lead in our water. Enough is enough.
Safe drinking water is a fundamental human right. Yet, year after year, families in my community still struggle with lead-contaminated drinking water — and it’s coming straight from their faucets. [Chicago Tribune 8.16.2023] The Southeast Side of Chicago is made up of several vibrant communities, full of old houses like mine, plagued by many environmental… Read more »
Here’s Why There Is Still So Much Lead Pipe in Chicago- Time
Even though lead in drinking water damages children’s development, the Environmental Protection Agency has forced very few cities to replace their lead pipes. [Time magazine 7.9.2023] Consider Chicago, with more water pipes made out of lead than any U.S. city, some 400,000. About 7% of homes that requested sampling last year exceeded federal limits, and in at… Read more »
Here’s why there is still so much lead pipe in Chicago- Chicago Tribune
BY MICHAEL PHILLIS AND CAMILLE FASSETT Published 11:36 PM CDT, July 8, 2023 Even though lead in drinking water damages children’s development, the Environmental Protection Agency has forced very few cities to replace their lead pipes. Consider Chicago, with more water pipes made out of lead than any U.S. city, some 400,000. About 7% of homes that requested sampling last… Read more »
A decade into the work, Chicago is finally taking out toxic lead pipes when it replaces water mains
A decade into the work, Chicago is finally taking out toxic lead pipes when it replaces water mains By Michael HawthorneChicago Tribune•Apr 28, 2023 at 11:47 am Blackhawk Sewer & Water contractor Khaild Waarith with a lead pipe that was extracted from the 3100 block of South Ridgeway Avenue in Chicago on April 10, 2023. (Antonio Perez… Read more »