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Carly Baldwin
Patch Read the full article. LONG BRANCH, NJ — Starting this week, New Jersey American Water will replace approximately 2,250 feet of aging water main in Long Branch. The company will upgrade the aging two- and four-inch cast-iron water lines that were installed in the 1920s with new 8-inch ductile iron main along Hoey Avenue and Reid Street. The work will take place along the following streets: Hoey Avenue from Cedar Avenue to Overlook Avenue Reid Street entire length Peter Passi
Duluth News Tribune Read the full article. DULUTH — This week, Duluth began work on a pilot project to replace lead water service lines along a six-block stretch of East Eighth Street at a cost of nearly $1.3 million. The contractor, JMF Construction Inc., hopes to complete about half the work yet this fall and the remainder in the spring, working east to west from 14th Avenue East to Eighth Avenue East. The relatively small-scale endeavor gives residents a sense of the tremendous costs Duluth will face as it works to rid its municipal water system of lead, both in city-owned infrastructure and on private property. Lorie Croke has lived on East Eighth Street for 28 years, and said she will be glad to have the lead service line to her home replaced, especially at no cost to her household. Hannah Mackay
The Detroit News Read the full article. State environmental officials say more than 90% of the city's water service lines now are lead-free, roughly a year after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered a directive ordering all lines to be lead-free by 2023. Crews have excavated 171 service lines in the last month, averaging six a day, the Michigan Department of Environmental, Great Lakes and Energy said Tuesday in a news release. About 4,000 water lines have been replaced with copper or confirmed to not contain lead, leaving 400 to do. "It is great to hear that we are almost to the finish line,” Benton Harbor resident Sam Hudson said in a statement. “Over the last year, things have really come together and everyone, including the city, county, state of Michigan and the community found ways to work together to get us where we are now. The work has been done expeditiously to replace the lines and the results are good for my community." Kent Wainscott
WISN 12 Read the full article. Milwaukee is changing the way it replaces lead water lines to tens of thousands of homes. Mayor Cavalier Johnson announced, what he called, a re-design of the lead service line replacement program during a water summit of Midwest mayors in Milwaukee Thursday. Johnson says the existing program, through the Milwaukee Water Works, will now add equity by using three factors to identify and rank disadvantaged neighborhoods where the lead risk is the greatest. The mayor said the determination will be based on "the density of lead service lines, the intensity of elevated blood lead levels amongst resident children, and an aggregate score of socio-economic indicators of disadvantaged neighborhoods." Nicole Ethium
Watertown Daily Times Read the full article. The City of Watertown’s Water Utility is taking steps to reduce lead in drinking water with the help of the Private Lead Service Line Replacement Program. This year the city was able to obtain a grant from the Department of Natural Resources and hire a contractor to replace more homes’ lead laterals at no cost to those citizens, stated the City of Watertown. To make the most of the DNR grant, the city decided to replace as many lead service lines as possible by focusing on the area of Watertown with the highest concentration of likely lead laterals in the center of the city. The homeowners affected were notified through mail earlier this year. According to the City of Watertown, In 2021, 140 lead laterals were replaced. This year, 463 homes are scheduled to have their lead laterals replaced. The city’s goal is to be lead free in ten years. Cleveland Water replaces 100% of lead service lines to day care centers. Interior work remains9/8/2022
Owen MacMillan & Brie Camp
Ideastream Read the full article. The Ever Changing Educational Center operates out of a 110-year-old tan brick church on St. Clair Ave. and serves as a day care center for 12 Cleveland kids. Its director, Valentina Randle, has decades of experience working with children in the Forest Hills neighborhood, and the center has a top 5-star rating under Ohio’s Step Up to Quality standards. Randle knew her building was old, and she wanted to make sure that her kids were drinking safe, lead-free water. So when she received an email from Cleveland Water offering to test the building’s main service line – that’s the pipe leading from the public water main to the building – for lead and pay for any necessary replacements, she immediately took advantage of the opportunity. Tana Weingartner
91.7 WVXU Read the full article. Homeowners Liz and Roman Lewis knew when they bought their 142-year-old home in Spring Grove Village in June that it had lead water service lines. The information turned up during the inspection process. Greater Cincinnati Water Works is replacing lead lines across its service area. While it used to cover part of the cost, starting last December, Water Works covers the full cost from street to meter. Liz Lewis called to see about getting on the waiting list. "They told me there's a longer line and all this, but then he's like, 'Unless you are pregnant or if someone (living in the house is) under 6,' " Lewis recalls. "I was like, 'Well, actually, you're one of the only people who knows, but I'm pregnant.' Then he gave me the number of someone to contact directly, and then it kind of just moved quickly from there." |
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