Deadline approaching for Waterloo homeowners to apply for lead pipe grant replacement

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Karyn Saemann

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Waterloo residents who want to tap into a city grant program to replace the lead pipes running into their homes are running out of time to do that.

In 2021, the city has offered grants to homeowners that will pay up to 75% of lead pipe replacement costs, up to a maximum of $3,750. The grants were made possible after the city received about $237,000 allocation from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

When the city council approved the grant program in February, it was expected that it would to cover 106 homes.

“We are hopeful that everybody will get on board and get (the replacements) done because it is a use it or lose it,” Mayor Jeni Quimby said then.