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Jeff Kolkey ROCKFORD — City Water Superintendent Kyle Saunders next week will propose a no-interest loan program to help residential water customers replace lead service lines. Saunders said that if approved by City Council, the Water Division would tell residents when they have lead pipe service lines between the water main and their home. “Customers will receive a notice of presence that says either during a distribution activity or capital investment, it was identified they have a lead service line,” Saunders said. “They would receive lot of information and would have three choices: One, replace at their own cost; Two, move forward with city financing at no interest; or three, do nothing. When residents choose to replace lead service lines, the city will replace the line from the main to the property line. Saunders estimates that replacing the lines on private property would cost about $2,000. Read the full article. Richmond Times-Dispatch
Tammie Smith Richmond residents have less than three more weeks to apply for grants of up to $2,500 to replace lead water service lines running from their homes to the city main water lines. An initial deadline of April 6 has been extended to May 11 to give homeowners more time to apply and line up contractors to do the work. The water line replacement work has to be completed by June 30. “The whole goal of the program is to get the lead out,” said Steve Pellei, division director of financial and construction assistance programs at the Virginia Department of Health’s Office of Drinking Water. Watertown Daily Times
Craig Fox WATERTOWN — The city is ready to roll out a program funded through a $607,629 state grant to replace corroded lead piping on about 150 homes. Watertown Superintendent Vicky Murphy said Monday night that approximately 49,000 Watertown homes built before 1931 most likely have water lines contaminated by lead. Drinking water can be a source of lead exposure when service pipes are corroded with lead. Children and pregnant women are most vulnerable to its impacts. The effects of lead are irreversible. Read the full article. The Buffalo News
Thomas J. Prohaska As many as 300 lead water lines in Niagara Falls will be replaced over the next two years, with $570,000 in state funding announced Wednesday. Starting with its current list of leaking pipes, Niagara Falls Water Board crews will excavate and repair each pipe, then cut out the lead and replace it with copper. The city Engineering Department will inspect and track all replacements. "Thanks to unprecedented support from Gov. (Andrew M.) Cuomo and our partners in state government, we can continue the necessary task of modernizing our aging infrastructure through the elimination of lead pipe water lines," Mayor Paul A. Dyster said. Read the full article. Buffalo NPR
Mike Desmond The Niagara Falls Water Board will be replacing more lead pipe water lines this year than planned. Albany threw in $575,000 to allow more of the potentially dangerous lines to be removed and replaced with safer piping. At one time, lead pipe in water systems was pretty routine. While the risks of lead pipe have been known for millennia, it is easy to work with - and if handled carefully, it is considered a lesser risk than lead paint in homes, which can chip and create poisonous dust. Read the full article. |
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