Posts Tagged: lead pipes

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 »