SILVIS, Ill. — Silvis is beginning some of the first steps to remove all its lead water pipes. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is mandating that all cities in the state replace the lead ...

Water service lines are the pipes connecting the water main to a building that are often connected to the water meter. A surprising number of cities in the United States have water service lines made ...

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After more than 50 years in business, Service Pipe & Supply is still in business with a third generation of family owners. Nicole Peters, the owner of Service Pipe & Supply says the business started ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Big changes are in Moline's water future, thanks to a new law on its way to Governor J.B. Pritzker's desk. HB 3739 was passed by the state's House and Senate last month and will require ...

FLINT, MI-- The rate of finding lead or galvanized service pipes in Flint has increased 15 to 70 percent while using a predictive model to plan replacements, according to the researchers who built the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland Water today released information for 1.4 million customers and residents in almost 80 Northeast Ohio communities about whether sections of the lines that carry water to ...

FLINT, MI -- The city of Flint's ban on a cost-effective tool and its method for finding lead water service pipes may mean it could run out of money before all its hazardous pipes are removed. The ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Folks in cities across North Carolina are getting letters in the mail and those letters are causing a panic. The letters contain verbiage like ...

Detroit is currently outfitted with around 100,000 outdated lead service pipes running beneath the streets. It was only in 1945 that Detroit banned the installation of lead piping for water service ...

LANSING (AP) — A University of Michigan-Flint professor said Monday that the city has more than 8,000 old lead pipes running from water mains to homes and businesses, an estimate the mayor plans to ...