Denver Water Replacing Lead Pipes In 11 Neighborhoods

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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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