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Mike Nolting Read the full article. CLARKSBURG W.Va. — An official with the Clarksburg Water Board says thousands of metered lines have been reviewed in recent weeks in connection with possible lead contamination. Water board president Paul Howe said on Thursday’s ‘Talk of the Town’ on WAJR Radio the board continues testing for lead services, updating services where possible and distributing bottled water and filters for families affected. Howe said the strategy includes materials inventory, sampling, corrosion control treatment and service line replacement. “We’ve been testing now for some time,” Howe said. “There is no indication that lead is present in our raw water that we harvest from the West Fork River or the finished water in the treatment plant.” Spectrum News 1
Casey Weldon Read the full article. CINCINNATI – When Susan and Michael Jorgensen bought a rambling, older house in Cincinnati’s College Hill neighborhood last year, they knew it might bring a few challenges. After all, the home was built in 1913, and along with its historic charm, came the burdens of age. What the Jorgensens didn’t expect, however, was learning their water line was made from lead. A toxic metal, experts say lead can have devastating effects on a person's health if they drink it over an extended period. Susan Jorgensen said she had no idea their home had a lead service line. She said that it might have been listed in real estate documentation, but it wasn't something they were aware of. Washington Examiner
Zeta Cross Read the full article. Illinois is committed to getting rid of all the lead-lined water pipes in the state within 15 or 20 years, beginning in 2027, a costly and labor-intensive effort. Legislation mandating lead pipe replacement passed both houses of the state legislature this spring. The legislation is on the governor’s desk for him to sign. The state-wide effort will create 6,000 indirect or direct jobs in Illinois, a new report by Environmental Entrepreneurs, a group of national business leaders and the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters has found. 12WBOY
Allen Clayton Read the full article. CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – The Clarksburg Water Board held a special meeting Wednesday evening to consider the proposed Corrective Action Plan due to residents testing positive for lead. Officials with the Clarksburg Water Board approved the action plan. That action plan includes four major tasks which will require the board to review eight thousand service connections to identify actual or suspected lead service lines. Secondly, the board will perform increased system-wide sampling to identify lead contamination. Thirdly, they will investigate and test alternative corrosion control methods. “Lead lines were used for 40 or 50 years throughout the state and the country. I know there are estimates of 20 thousand lead lines in the state, that is probably grossly underestimated, there are probably 100,000 lead lines still in use.” said Paul Howe, President of the Clarksburg Water Board. Global News
Connor O’Donovan Read the full article. Thanks to a Cathedral resident’s Freedom of Information (FOI) request, the addresses of nearly 3300 lead service connections (LSCs) in Regina have been posted online. “I put in the FOI request in the hopes that it would draw public attention to the issue and put pressure on the city to get the lead out ASAP,” said Florence Stratton, who hopes the new list will lead to public pressure on the City of Regina to fast-track its connection replacement program. “Think about what is happening to the children, and it also effects adult’s health there’s a possible cancer connection, kidney dysfunction, and so on this should not be happening,” she said. Naperville Community Television
Megann Horstead Read the full article. The city of Naperville, through an investigation, has unearthed records showing that its inventory of lead water service lines is larger than previously expected. Some records discovered as part of the probe reveal that lead water service lines were not banned in the city until 1960, resulting in the discovery of up to 2,000 additional lead water service lines, up from the list of 200 that originally remained. Previously, staff believed lead pipes were prohibited in 1930. Darrell Blenniss, the city’s director for water utilities, said most of the impacted properties are in the Moser Highlands and Scots Plains subdivisions. PIX11
Dan Mannarino, Betty Nguyen, Veronica Rosario Read the full article. NEWARK, NJ — It’s been about two years since New Jersey’s largest city gained national attention for elevated levels of lead found in the water supply. Now, Newark is nearing completion of a major initiative to replace the city’s lead pipes, and becoming a model for other American cities for fixing such a problem. Journalist and New York Times writer Kevin Armstrong has been following the story very closely and joined the PIX11 Morning News to talk about how far they’ve come and how they got it done so quickly. The Press of Atlantic City
Read the full article. Last month the Legislature passed and Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law requiring water systems in New Jersey to inventory how many potentially harmful lead pipes they have. That’s a good idea, as we urged such an inventory a couple of years ago. Lead service pipes can leach the toxic metal into water if it isn’t properly treated. Newark is almost done replacing 20,000 lead lines after such problems in Flint, Michigan, brought attention to its lead problem. The law also requires that all lead and galvanized metal pipes be replaced within a decade. That’s a worthwhile goal but a costly one -- more than $2 billion statewide. The question is who will pay this steep cost. WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Read the full article. Capital Region Congressman Paul Tonko hosted a panel discussion in his Albany office Wednesday on the human impacts and local planning to remove lead drinking water components in active use. Tonko, a Democrat, is one of the few engineers serving in Congress. Earlier this year he introduced AQUA, the Assistance, Quality, and Affordability Act, which would have invested $45 billion over 10 years to remove the country's millions of operating lead service lines. This week the Senate voted to pass a $1 trillion dollar infrastructure bill that includes $15 billion for the effort. Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, also a Democrat, says city hall has been pro-active when it comes to lead remediation. Residents were sent fliers with their water bills which showed how to determine via a "scratch test" whether the service coming into their homes contained lead or not. She says while it gave many people peace of mind, it brought worry and concern to those affected by lead. WTTW News
Heather Cherone Read the full article. The $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan that advanced Tuesday with a 69-30 vote in the U.S. Senate includes $15 billion to replace the lead service lines responsible for contaminating the tap water in approximately 10 million homes across the country. However, President Joe Biden originally asked lawmakers to earmark $45 billion to fund the replacement of all of the lead service lines in the nation, estimated to be between 9.7 million and 12.8 million by the National Resources Defense Council. |
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