Lead Pipes

This week on WKNO/Channel 10’s Behind the Headlines, Doug McGowen, President & CEO of MLGW, joins host Eric Barnes to discuss MLGW’s initiatives to remove lead pipe service lines.

MLGW has issued a press release saying they have "submitted its water service line inventory in August, more than a month before the [EPA] deadline."

Watch this Water Service Lines Presentation.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given cities nationwide a deadline of October 16, 2024, to submit an initial inventory of lead service lines.

Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall in Florida late tonight as a dangerous storm, and time is running out for people to evacuate. And, the EPA has mandated a nationwide lead pipe removal.

The EPA issued a final rule requiring water systems to replace all lead pipes within 10 years. Water advocates lauded the rule as a public health victory, but say there's much work to be done.

President Biden on Tuesday set a 10-year deadline for cities across the nation to replace their lead pipes, finalizing an approach aimed at ensuring that drinking water is safe for all Americans.

The EPA is finalizing a rule to require replacement of lead service lines that connect homes to water systems. The change would lower lead levels in drinking water but poses logistical challenges.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Flint resident Melissa Mays, a clean water activist, about the EPA's proposed rule that most U.S. cities will have to replace lead water pipes within the next 10 years.

Under the Biden Administration's new guidance, most U.S. cities would have to replace lead pipes within the next 10 years. About 9 million lead pipes are still bringing water into American buildings.