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Brad Devereaux
MLive Read the full article. The city of Kalamazoo is planning a $20 million project to upgrade water mains and replace lead water service lines in part of town, and your bill could go up by $2.40 per month as a result, according to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE). Water mains will be replaced in the northwest part of the city on Arlington Street, Dartmouth Street, Pinehurst Boulevard, Campbell Avenue, Commonwealth Avenue, North Clarendon Street, North Berkley Street, Waverly Street, Wilmette Street, Crown Street, Martin Street and Lulu Street. A 24-inch diameter main will be run along West Crosstown Parkway. Additionally, 1,500 lead service lines will be replaced in the neighborhood south of Mosel Avenue and west of the Kalamazoo River. Construction begins this fall, Public Services Director James Baker said. Pharos-Tribune
Read the full article. Work is set to begin for Logansport Utilities’ water service line replacement project. Five Star Energy Services, an underground utility construction company, will be working with Logansport Utilities’ water department to tackle replacing the aging pipe infrastructure. Replacements will include the public main waterlines up to the point which it connects with a property’s plumbing, sometimes inside a home or business. The primary areas of the project will affect the oldest parts of the city’s water system, with the goal of replacing any potential lead pipes or galvanized piping material that is downstream from lead materials, that would have been installed more than 50 years ago. Marshall Keely
Fox43 Read the full article. The York Water Company is no stranger to updating its infrastructure. The first pipe ever installed in York, simply a log with a hole in it, was put in the ground in 1816. President J.T. Hand said the company has made many changes in the more than 200 years since, including removing a harmful metal from use. "We have been replacing lead service lines since the early 1980s," Hand said. A new EPA report revealed Pennsylvania has almost 700,000 lead service lines in use, which could cause a range of long-term health problems, especially in children. It comes as Pennsylvania received $265 million in federal grants to replace lead pipes. Sunayana Prabhu
The Two River Times Read the full article. The borough’s underground lead pipelines will be replaced over a period of 10 years, Jaclyn Flor, president and CEO of ENGenuity Infrastructure, told the borough council at a meeting last month. After discussions with the borough’s department of public works and finance committees, Flor presented a detailed PowerPoint for the council with identification and replacement procedures of all lead water pipes in the borough. Flor explained that the borough had completed identification of lead water lines as required of all municipalities by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection last July. |
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