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Robert McFerren
21 WFMJ Read the full article. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced $2.4 million in H2Ohio assistance to help 53 public water systems, including four cities and one village in the Valley to identify and map lead pipes in each community. The village of Leetonia, along with the cities of Youngstown, Columbiana, and Girard each received $50,000, while the city of Hubbard received $49,621. “Water plays a vital role water in our daily lives, and these mini-grants will help communities take the first step toward safer water, " said Ohio EPA Director Laurie A. Stevenson. Charles E. Ramirez
The Detroit News Read the full article. Detroit Water and Sewerage Department officials on Thursday said they will be able to speed up the replacement of about 80,000 lead services lines in the city thanks to a $100 million fund the agency has amassed from state and federal grants. The lines will be replaced at no additional cost to customers, DWSD Director Gary Brown said in a statement. He also said the fund will enable the department to step up its program to replace lead service lines from about 700 a year to at least 5,000 annually for the next three years. Jonah Nink
Shaw Local News Network Read the full article. Batavia was awarded nearly $4 million through the Illinois Environmental Protective Agency to replace outdated lead water service lines throughout the city. The City Council approved a notice of intent to award the contract to Brandt Excavating Inc. during Monday’s meeting. “It would appear that [the program] is going to save the Batavia rate payer some significant amount of money to get rid of all this lead-based pipe we’ve got in the ground, some of it originally put in there about 1893,” said Mayor Jeffery Schielke. “It needs to be taken out.” Get the lead out: Freeport replacing 700 lead service lines after receiving state funding10/17/2022
Chris Green
Journal Standard Read the full article. FREEPORT — The city of Freeport will receive $4 million in funding from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to replace lead service lines in the community. The funding is provided through the Illinois EPA’s State Revolving Fund, which provides low-interest loans for drinking water, wastewater, and storm water projects. The city of Freeport will receive 100 percent principal forgiveness for this loan. Service lines are small pipes that carry drinking water from water mains into homes. Many older homes built prior to 1990 may have lead service lines or lead containing plumbing fixtures or faucets. Sydnie Savage
Fox 4 Kansas City Read the full article. Federal money could soon help remove lead pipes from homes in Olathe. On Tuesday, the Olathe City Council will consider a resolution to apply for a Public Water Supply Loan through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). The council will consider applying for up to $3,162,000 in funding to support lead and galvanized pipe replacement throughout the city. If the loan is approved, the money would be used to replace water service lines in areas of the city where the poverty rate exceeds 11.4%. Quinn Ritzdorf
News-Press Now Read the full article. There’s a nationwide push to replace lead pipes, but the first step is trying to find them. Lead has been used as piping for centuries because it’s malleable and can be bent and shaped around obstacles. It’s why old communities, such as St. Joseph, likely have high volumes of lead service lines. However, the location of many lead pipes are unknown. Missouri American Water, along with utility companies across the state, has been tasked with finding these service lines by 2024. Missouri American has located and replaced about 15% of St. Joseph’s known and suspected lead service lines. Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post Read the full article. Denver Water’s plan to replace tens of thousands of lead pipes connecting homes to the city’s water supply is working well enough to move past the trial phase, federal officials said. Environmental Protection Agency officials gave the utility three years in late 2019 to try its unique approach of replacing lead service lines, home by home, while changing the chemistry of its water supply to keep lead levels low. In that time, Denver Water has replaced thousands of lead service lines and kept levels of the toxic, heavy metal in its water supply at a fraction of the allowable federal limits, Sarah Bahrman, chief of the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Branch, said. |
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