Illinois Has A New Law To Remove Lead Pipes. So Now What Happens? – WBEZ (Chicago)

Chicago has about 400,000 lead service lines connecting to people’s homes. The city has 50 years to replace them all.
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Dr Nemo
4 years ago

This will take a long-term expansion of the water department or a very long time. Digging down to the lead pipe connecting the house/ apt bldg private service to the public water main tap will require a full day’s labor for two laborers plus at least an hour of a plumber’s time and maybe more. Plus the new materials that will be used to replace the flexible lead conduit. A plumber and eight laborers can do four of these jobs per day if at least two of the laborer crews are experienced and work hard enough in the morning to… Read more »

Fed up neighbor
4 years ago
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Good job

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