As part of a citywide effort to identify water service lines that may contain lead or galvanized materials, Dallas Water ...
More than half a million Houston-area residents were due letters this month to warn them that their drinking water might be leaching lead from old service lines. An Environmental Protection Agency ...
Although lead pipes were banned decades ago, millions of homes still contain them. In fact, lead from water service lines remains one of the leading causes of childhood lead poisoning. Lead is a ...
In the past month, thousands of Iowans have received notices saying they may have lead drinking water service lines that should be replaced. Notices from Des Moines Water Works recently started ...
More than one-third of home test kits sent in for testing by residents to the city’s environmental agency over the past decade had some level of lead — results that reflect many New Yorkers’ continued ...
Sand Creek Middle School does not have lead pipes for its drinking water, yet individual faucets would test positive for an unsafe amount of lead. Officials discovered the problem was lead in the ...
The Onondaga County Water Authority is asking homeowners to help identify whether their water service lines are made of lead, copper or another material. OCWA, which serves 107,000 customers in ...
DECATUR, Ga. — DeKalb County is among the jurisdictions that encourage homeowners to get their water pipes tested for lead. The federal government recently announced a program to eliminate lead pipes ...
Baltimore City and County, MD — Is there lead in your drinking water? That’s the question thousands of Baltimore City and County homeowners are being asked to investigate. Recently, area residents ...
About half of Henrico County residences were sent a letter about an effort to “significantly” reduce exposure to lead in drinking water. While the letter contained some cautionary information about ...
Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic lead service lines, the underground pipes that connect buildings to the city’s water supply. The city has the most lead service lines in the ...
Lead pipes were banned in the United States in 1986. But dozens of Inland Empire school districts still had lead showing up in their drinking water in the past decade. California published its final ...