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City of Janesville receives DNR grant to replace lead pipes

2/5/2021

 
WCLO
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The Janesville Water Utility receives a DNR grant to cover the cost of replacing all of the remaining private lead water service laterals in the City.

Janesville Utility Director David Botts says the cost to replace a private lead water service lateral is up to $6000 and the grant will be invaluable to homeowners.
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Botts says the City is in the process of sending letters to the approximately 260 homes in the City that still have lead water service laterals.

City of Eau Claire’s program to help pay for lead pipe replacement

1/22/2021

 
WIProud
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WLAX/WEUX) – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says there are more than 200 thousand lead pipes across the state of Wisconsin.  The city of Eau Claire has a program that’s helping roughly 900 private water service lines get their lead pipes replaced.

The city of Eau Claire has been working with the DNR since 2017 to get funding to remove lead pipes from private property.  They have received 800 thousand dollars since then. Now they’re applying for more to help keep this program rolling.
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Property owners who may have lead pipes fill out an application with the city. If they qualify, the city reimburses the cost of replacement up to 2 thousand dollars. Lane Berg is the Utilities Manager for the city. He hopes people will use this resource.

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Denver Water Replacing Lead Pipes In 11 Neighborhoods

1/14/2021

 
CBS Local
Britt Moreno
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DENVER (CBS4) — You might have already seen the construction: 11 neighborhoods in Denver will have crews digging and working on their water pipes in 2021. Crews are replacing thousands of feet of lead pipes as part of a public health initiative to make the drinking water safe.

“It has taken years of research, but we have been successful through the pandemic,” says Denver water communication specialist Jose Salas.

He tells CBS4’s Britt Moreno that research teams track neighborhoods with a “heavy volume of children.” He says Denver Water targets neighborhoods with schools or daycares nearby — and that’s where they start working on replacing people’s pipes that connect to the main pipe underneath roadways.

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An Algorithm Is Helping a Community Detect Lead Pipes

1/14/2021

 
Wired
Sidney Fussell
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MORE THAN SIX years after residents of Flint, Michigan, suffered widespread lead poisoning from their drinking water, hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to improve water quality and bolster the city’s economy. But residents still report a type of community PTSD, waiting in long grocery store lines to stock up on bottled water and filters. Media reports Wednesday said former governor Rick Snyder has been charged with neglect of duty for his role in the crisis.

Snyder maintains his innocence, but he told Congress in 2016, "Local, state and federal officials—we all failed the families of Flint.”

One tool that emerged from the crisis is a form of artificial intelligence that could prevent similar problems in other cities where lead poisoning is a serious concern. BlueConduit, an analytics startup that says it uses predictive modeling to find lead pipes, offered promising results in Flint, but the city’s complex politics ended its use prematurely.

Now, four years later and 100 miles away, officials in Toledo, Ohio, facing concerns about lead pipes, want to use the technology. They hope to avoid the problems that surfaced in Flint by expanding community outreach and involvement. The Ohio Department of Health estimates that as many 19,000 children in the state have elevated levels of lead; children in Toledo tested positive for lead poisoning at nearly double the statewide rate, according to a 2016 report from the Toledo Lead Poisoning Prevention Coalition.

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City approves $1.3 million lead pipe loan program

1/12/2021

 
TB News Watch
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THUNDER BAY – The City of Thunder Bay will offer over $1.3 million in interest-free loans to homeowners, in hopes of speeding the removal of lead water pipes from an estimated 8,700 local homes.
City council voted unanimously Monday to approve a program offering loans of up to $3,000 each to help homeowners cover the costs of replacing lead service connections on private property.

"We hope people with lead services do take advantage of this," said Coun. Mark Bentz. "It's a golden opportunity to improve your home at no interest cost, which is a good deal."

Replacing lead service connections often costs between $2,000 and $4,000, the city has said, though in some cases can be significantly more expensive.
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The new initiative comes as the city faces a $350-million class-action lawsuit filed by residents over a previous effort to address the lead contamination problem by adding sodium hydroxide to its water supply.

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Owosso moves to replace lead water service lines

1/10/2021

 
Argus Press 
Sally York
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OWOSSO — The city has adopted a new rule mandating the replacement of lead and galvanized metal water service pipes extending to local properties over the next 20 years, at no charge to residents.
In addition, city officials have passed new ordinance language to reflect the high-tech water meters recently installed at properties throughout Owosso.

Owosso City Council members approved both moves during a virtual meeting Monday.

City Manager Nathan Henne said the service pipe program, mandated by the state through revised lead and copper rules, “reflects the new reality” that the city will no longer split the cost of service line replacement with residents, but cover the whole cost.

“Now we will pay half again as much, on the city side, to address this,” Henne said.
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Revised lead and copper rules under the Michigan Department of Energy, municipalities throughout the state are required to replace private and public property water service lines that are made of lead or galvanized metal, which have been shown to contaminate drinking water.

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Shawano works to remove lead water pipes

1/9/2021

 
WBAY
Kati Anderson
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SHAWANO, Wis. (WBAY) - The City of Shawano is taking steps to remove lead water lines from homeowners’ properties over the next two years.

“We’re planning on removing 200 to 250 lead service lines in the city of Shawano this year and hopefully about the same next year and get that taken care of,” Shawano Public Workers Director Scott Kroening said.

It’s a process that’s been ongoing in Shawano for many years, but it’s become more urgent after three homes exceeded the maximum containment level for lead last summer.
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“We do testing in residential homes every other year. We do 20 homes that we test, and of the twenty, in 2020, in our third quarter testing back in July, we did have three exceedances. They were just barely over the maximum contaminant level,” Kroening said.

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Wheeling Aims To Remove All Lead Service Lines By 2021

12/11/2020

 
Lauren Barry
Journal & Topics
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By next year, all existing lead service lines connecting Wheeling homes to village services should be removed and replaced with copper pipes. 

As of this month, the village has replaced 57 of the 110 lead pipes in Wheeling. “We’re ahead of the game,” Wheeling Supt. of Utility Jeff Wolfgram told the Journal & Topics Tuesday (Dec. 1). He said all municipalities will most likely be mandated to replace lead pipes at some point in the future.

“There is no known safe level of lead in a child’s blood. Lead is harmful to health, especially for children,” according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According to the agency, lead-related health issues can range from stomach distress to brain damage.

“In homes with lead pipes that connect the home to the water main, also known as lead services lines, these pipes are typically the most significant source of lead in the water,” the EPA says. 

Guidelines from the agency’s Lead and Copper Rule stipulate that government agencies must conduct remediation measures if more than 15 parts per billion of lead or 1.3 parts per million of copper are found in 10% of customer taps sampled.

Copper pipes present less risk for corrosion than lead pipes, Wolfgram confirmed.

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Yourhub: Denver Water initiative successful in spite of pandemic

12/11/2020

 
By Cathy Proctor
Yourhub
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In a year when so much was canceled or put on hold, one program remained steadfast for Denver area residents: the Lead Reduction Program.

The first year of Denver Water’s groundbreaking public health initiative has been a huge success — despite the COVID-19 pandemic that hit just as the massive program was getting underway.
“Achieving the many ambitious, first-year goals of the program — which is itself on a scale and scope that’s never been tried before — and succeeding while a pandemic unfolds around us is absolutely extraordinary,” said Jim Lochhead, the CEO/Manager of Denver Water. “Elements of this program have been implemented on smaller scales across the country, but nothing that’s this wide-ranging, involving so many lines, so many customers, and so many methods of protecting our families, friends and neighbors from the risk of lead.”

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Glen Cove launches program to remove lead pipes at homes

12/8/2020

 
Ted Phillips 
Newsday
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Glen Cove is launching a program to remove old lead pipes that connect residents’ homes to the water main. The city expects to have the program, which is funded through a state grant, in place by the end of the year.
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