As municipalities, water authorities and homeowners are grappling with ridding infrastructure of the health risk that lead water service lines can pose, there are still two major obstacles – logistics ...

Milwaukee aims to remove 5,000 lead service lines in 2026 using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding, but long term ...

Crews excavate water lines during a utility replacement project. EPA’s updated state inventories show about 4 million lead service lines nationwide—less than half earlier estimates—driving a $3 ...

Chicago has a lead pipe problem. The city estimates that about 412,000 out of roughly 491,000 water service lines require replacement because they are known or suspected to contain lead. That’s the ...

Louisiana will get $412,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to remove lead pipes for schools and childcare facilities across the state. The EPA announced in June that ...

Lead pipes are ubiquitous. At this point, no state has gotten rid of all of its toxic lead service lines, which pipe drinking water to homes and businesses. But some cities like Chicago, New York City ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Lead pipes are ubiquitous. At this point, no state has gotten rid of all of its toxic ...

More than 11,000 houses in Nassau County and a handful in Suffolk draw their drinking water through old lead service lines, and at least 100,000 more have pipes whose material is unknown but could ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - A recent study showed that Grand Junction has dozens of lead pipes that need to be replaced.