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Chicago, the last big American city to require water pipes made of brain-damaging lead, is now the last one beginning to rip toxic pipes out of the ground. Under plans shared Wednesday with the Chicago Tribune, the Department of Water Management envisions a long and costly effort to protect Chicagoans from a widespread public health threat that remained largely hidden for decades. Initial work will be modest compared with the scope of the dangers.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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Articale dosent state, but assume lead water line replacement will be done by dept of water/ city crews diretly on t&m basis and not competively bid (just as water main replacement is largely being done now). Maybe not big bucks now, but potentially a gigantc pork barrel $$win$$ for ciry water dept labor & operarors. Rediculous