Cost of lead pipe removals weighs heavily on the Midwest – The Bond Buyer

The fight to end lead contamination in drinking water is playing out with high stakes in the Midwest. The region accounts for a disproportionate share of the roughly 9.2 million lead pipes across the U.S.
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Freddy
1 year ago

Kennedy wants to remove fluoride from our water supply. About time. This is what fluoride does to lead pipes.
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/chloramine-lead-pipes-fluoride-contaminated-tap-water

Where's Mine ???
1 year ago

will direct hire city water dept unions (operators 150) be able to get away with bilking taxpayers with $30g per lead waterline replacement as fed funds presumably dry up under a trump administration when nationally other municipalities are replacing lead waterlines for a fraction of cost??

Last edited 1 year ago by Where's Mine ???

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