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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 Batavia was awarded nearly $4 million through the Illinois Environmental Protective Agency to replace outdated lead water service lines throughout the city.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. Carly Baldwin
Patch Read the full article. LONG BRANCH, NJ — Starting this week, New Jersey American Water will replace approximately 2,250 feet of aging water main in Long Branch. The company will upgrade the aging two- and four-inch cast-iron water lines that were installed in the 1920s with new 8-inch ductile iron main along Hoey Avenue and Reid Street. The work will take place along the following streets: Hoey Avenue from Cedar Avenue to Overlook Avenue Reid Street entire length Peter Passi
Duluth News Tribune Read the full article. DULUTH — This week, Duluth began work on a pilot project to replace lead water service lines along a six-block stretch of East Eighth Street at a cost of nearly $1.3 million. The contractor, JMF Construction Inc., hopes to complete about half the work yet this fall and the remainder in the spring, working east to west from 14th Avenue East to Eighth Avenue East. The relatively small-scale endeavor gives residents a sense of the tremendous costs Duluth will face as it works to rid its municipal water system of lead, both in city-owned infrastructure and on private property. Lorie Croke has lived on East Eighth Street for 28 years, and said she will be glad to have the lead service line to her home replaced, especially at no cost to her household. Hannah Mackay
The Detroit News Read the full article. State environmental officials say more than 90% of the city's water service lines now are lead-free, roughly a year after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered a directive ordering all lines to be lead-free by 2023. Crews have excavated 171 service lines in the last month, averaging six a day, the Michigan Department of Environmental, Great Lakes and Energy said Tuesday in a news release. About 4,000 water lines have been replaced with copper or confirmed to not contain lead, leaving 400 to do. "It is great to hear that we are almost to the finish line,” Benton Harbor resident Sam Hudson said in a statement. “Over the last year, things have really come together and everyone, including the city, county, state of Michigan and the community found ways to work together to get us where we are now. The work has been done expeditiously to replace the lines and the results are good for my community." Kent Wainscott
WISN 12 Read the full article. Milwaukee is changing the way it replaces lead water lines to tens of thousands of homes. Mayor Cavalier Johnson announced, what he called, a re-design of the lead service line replacement program during a water summit of Midwest mayors in Milwaukee Thursday. Johnson says the existing program, through the Milwaukee Water Works, will now add equity by using three factors to identify and rank disadvantaged neighborhoods where the lead risk is the greatest. The mayor said the determination will be based on "the density of lead service lines, the intensity of elevated blood lead levels amongst resident children, and an aggregate score of socio-economic indicators of disadvantaged neighborhoods." Nicole Ethium
Watertown Daily Times Read the full article. The City of Watertown’s Water Utility is taking steps to reduce lead in drinking water with the help of the Private Lead Service Line Replacement Program. This year the city was able to obtain a grant from the Department of Natural Resources and hire a contractor to replace more homes’ lead laterals at no cost to those citizens, stated the City of Watertown. To make the most of the DNR grant, the city decided to replace as many lead service lines as possible by focusing on the area of Watertown with the highest concentration of likely lead laterals in the center of the city. The homeowners affected were notified through mail earlier this year. According to the City of Watertown, In 2021, 140 lead laterals were replaced. This year, 463 homes are scheduled to have their lead laterals replaced. The city’s goal is to be lead free in ten years. |
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