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sadele2sadele2
2024-11-19

"An estimated 30% of pipes delivering water to NYC buildings may have lead – and now there’s a map to help determine if your building is affected."

DEP est. that replacing all of NYC’s lead pipes will cost $2 billion – or $10,000 to $15,000 per line. Homeowners & landlords are responsible for replacing the pipes.

EPA estimates that up to 9 million homes are served by lead pipes across the country. No level of lead is deemed safe to human health.

gothamist.com/news/do-lead-pip

Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2024-10-10

More than $7.5 million in federal funding will be used to help remove lead from homes in Houston.

houstonpublicmedia.org/article

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺animalculum@scholar.social
2024-10-09

#Biden sets a 10-year deadline for US cities to replace #LeadPipes and make drinking water safer
apnews.com/article/lead-pipes- #USpol

"The rule is the strongest overhaul of lead standards in 3 decades... The announcement highlights an issue — safe #DrinkingWater — that #Harris has prioritized as VP & during her campaign... The #EPA estimates this will... avoid up to 1,500 premature deaths a year... To help communities comply, the agency is making available an additional $2.6B for #infrastructure"

photo of metal water pipes underground
SherBearethSherBeareth@mastodon.world
2024-10-08

🎺 🎺 The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule Tuesday requiring water #utilities to replace all #leadpipes within a decade, a move aimed at eliminating a #toxic threat that continues to affect tens of thousands of American children each year.
The move also tightens the amount of lead allowed in the nation’s drinking water, coming 40 years after Congress determined that #lead pipes posed a serious #risk to public #health and #banned them in new construction.

washingtonpost.com/climate-sol

Deborah Rose ❌👑DebErupts
2024-09-25

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021, provides $15 billion nationwide in funding through the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) for lead service line (LSL) identification and replacement for over the next five years.
waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_wa

CelloMom On CarsCelloMomOnCars
2024-08-05

"The water investments in the bipartisan package were also Harris’ ideas. She was the lead author on [a law] that would replace . Today, $15bn is being spent on this effort across the country, and the Biden-Harris administration is on track to replace 1.7m lead pipes.

When it comes to protecting people and the planet, Harris has been ahead of her time. After decades of effort, her vision for a cleaner environment has slowly but surely made its way into law."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Clay Riversclayrivers@mastodon.world
2024-05-01

💛 “Diversifying Citizen Science Projects”

Citizen science projects tend to attract white, affluent, well-educated volunteers — here’s how we recruited a more diverse group to identify lead pipes in homes.
—@TheConversationUS

#Inequity #TheEnvironment #Inclusion #LeadPipes #LeadinWater

@BigAngBlack
@BlackMastodon@chirp.social
@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe

ohfweekly.org/diversifying-cit

Ed Wilk 🇺🇦🌵edwilk@mstdn.social
2024-03-13

freep.com/story/news/local/mic
#ChunderRoad #Flintmichigan #leadpipes

Our Human Familyourhumanfam@mastodon.world
2024-01-16

💛 “Diversifying Citizen Science Projectsf”

Citizen science projects tend to attract white, affluent, well-educated volunteers — here’s how we recruited a more diverse group to identify lead pipes in homes.
—@TheConversationUS

#Inequity #TheEnvironment #Inclusion #LeadPipes #LeadinWater

@BigAngBlack
@BlackMastodon@chirp.social
@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe

ohfweekly.org/diversifying-cit

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io
2023-12-11

Millions of #lead #pipes would finally be ripped out under proposed #EPA rule
The rule could generate up to $34.8 billion in #health benefits each year.
Rule would require all lead service lines in the country be replaced within 10 years, and would lower the current lead action level in drinking water from 15 parts per billion to 10ppb. But, ripping out and replacing #leadpipes will not come cheap. EPA estimates it will cost $20B to $30B to replace the pipes over 10 years
arstechnica.com/health/2023/11

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺animalculum@scholar.social
2023-12-05

Millions of #LeadPipes would finally be ripped out under proposed #EPA rule arstechnica.com/health/2023/11 @arstechnica

"The rule is part of a larger effort by the #Biden administration to reduce #LeadExposure in children and advance #EnvironmentalJustice. Lead exposure disproportionately affects low-income communities and communities of color."

#Lead #USpol #JoeBiden #Democrats #Pollution

City workers unload a truck containing pallets of bottled water to distribute during a water filter distribution event
Poetry Newspoetrybot
2023-12-01

Pipes
Lead, old, ripped out
Benefits: health, wealth
Environmental, safety
Secure

arstechnica.com/health/2023/11

U.S. Politics in Real Timeuspolitics@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-11-30

EPA proposes requirement to remove lead pipes from US water systems within 10 years

cnn.com/2023/11/30/health/lead

#CNN #EPA #LeadPipes #WaterSystems #RemovalRequirement #US #Politics #News

Political IQPoliticalIQ@newsie.social
2023-11-30

Biden announces plan to replace all lead water lines within 10 years politicaliq.com/2023/11/30/bid #Biden #KamalaHarris #water #lead #leadpipes #drinkingwater #toxic #infrastructure #health #politicaliq #news #politics

DoomsdaysCWDoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social
2023-10-17

The toxic, corrosive reason #saltwater intrusion would be a catastrophe for #NewOrleans

By Ella Nilsen, CNN

Published Oct 16, 2023 12:14 PM EDT

"It would be a nightmare for any city: A massive wedge of saltwater creeping up the Mississippi River, contaminating drinking water at treatment plants one-by-one and threatening the health of hundreds of thousands of residents.

"But it’s a looming catastrophe for New Orleans, where officials estimate that tens of thousands of the city’s water pipes are made of lead.

"New Orleans is far from the only city in the US with lead pipes, but over the last few weeks it faced the possibility that, without a herculean and costly effort to stop it, saltwater could corrode those pipes and leach toxic metals into the drinking water supply."

Read more:
accuweather.com/en/weather-new

#LeadPipes #LeadPoisoning #OldHouses #SeaLevelRise

Global Newsglnews_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net
2023-09-06

Regina lead pipe replacement timeline still set for 2036 despite pushback
The lead in Regina’s water does not come from the treatment plant in Buffalo Pound, but rather the pipes and connections underground.
#globalnews #Canada #CityCouncil #LeadinReginawater #LeadPipes
globalnews.ca/news/9943333/reg

Global News Canadaglcanada_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net
2023-09-06

Regina lead pipe replacement timeline still set for 2036 despite pushback
The lead in Regina’s water does not come from the treatment plant in Buffalo Pound, but rather the pipes and connections underground.
#globalnews #Canada #CityCouncil #LeadinReginawater #LeadPipes
globalnews.ca/news/9943333/reg

Deborah Rose ❌👑DebErupts
2023-08-01

New partnership with states will help communities access funds from Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for lead service line removal and replacement.
epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launc

Dean Kirbydeankirby@journa.host
2023-07-14

In the US, the issue of lead in drinking water is a big one. A national action plan is underway to get rid of lead pipes to protect 400,000 children in schools. Here in the UK, it isn’t even talked about. Over the last four months I’ve been gathering school water data and have found some shocking things inews.co.uk/news/school-childr

#investigativejournalism #Data #DataJournalism #journalism #uk #USA #leadpipes #water #DrinkingWater

Deborah Rose ❌👑DebErupts
2023-07-12

EPA reports most lead pipes found in Florida, Illinois, Ohio. The Biden administration has set a goal to remove all of the country's lead water pipes as part of it's infrastructure bill.
usatoday.com/story/news/nation

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