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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. CBS 6
RICHMOND, Va. – The City of Richmond is offering to reimburse homeowners up to $2,500 to replace lead pipes in their home. If you own a home in Richmond that was built before 1986, you may have lead pipes. That could lead to small amounts of lead being deposited into the water line. Now if you want to replace those pipes, the city wants to help you pay for it. Thanks to the Residential Lead Service Line (LSL) Replacement Grant Program, the Department of Public Utilities will pay up to $2,500, if residents hire a plumber to replace lead lines running from the water meter to their home. Read the full article. Association of State Drinking Water Administrators
The Lead Service Line Replacement Collaborative has just announced a series of webinars for 2018 to cover topics crucial to building and implementing successful lead service line replacement programs. The first webinar is April 25 and provides information about the Collaboratives’ Web Toolkit. See more details and registration information below: Registration: https://lslrc-whatyouneedtoknow.eventbrite.com Read the full blog. Valley Breeze
Ethan Shorey NORTH PROVIDENCE – The town continued on its march toward the goal of becoming the only lead-free water pipe community in the state last week, winning praise from residents on efforts to prevent a potential future health crisis. Mayor Charles Lombardi says while officials from other communities seem reluctant to take advantage of available money to address lead water pipes “because they didn’t want to scare anyone,” he saw the opportunity to get out in front of the situation and set residents up for a safer future. Read the full article. Oshkosh Northwestern
Devi Shastri OSHKOSH – The city of Oshkosh is offering to reimburse homeowners for replacing lead pipes running to their homes. The program allows homeowners to save 50 percent on replacement work on their water lines, up to $1,500, by filling out the application on the public works department’s website and submitting to Tracy Taylor via email (ttaylor@ci.oshkosh.wi.us), by mail or in person at City Hall, 215 Church Ave. The funding is available through a $500,000 loan from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Read the full article. NWI Times
Sarah Reese Indiana American Water recently became the first utility to seek approval, under a state law enacted last year, of its plan to replace lead drinking water lines, including portions owned by customers. Records indicate 50,748 lead service lines might be present within the company’s system, nearly 65 percent of which are in Northwest Indiana. The majority of those lines are in Gary, Indiana American spokesman Joseph Loughmiller said. Read the full article. Environmental Defense Fund
The Indiana subsidiary of American Water Company filed a plan in January 2018 with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) to fully replace lead service lines (LSLs) in the communities it serves within the next 10 to 24 years. The company estimates that 50,000 of its 300,000 customers in the state have lead pipe in a portion of the service line connecting the main under the street with the building. The plan is the first submitted to the IURC in response to legislation enacted by the Indiana General Assembly in April 2017 and authored by Rep. Heath VanNatter. If the IURC approves the plan, the company can seek Commission approval to include LSL replacement on private property as an eligible infrastructure improvement whose costs can be covered by rates paid by customers. Read the full blog. |
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