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Copper, lead, or steel? Water authority mails 15,000 letters asking residents to test pipes

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Residents in Monroe County should keep an eye on their mail for an important letter from the Monroe County Water Authority. This letter is not a bill or junk mail. Instead, it ...
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Des Moines Water Works mailer warns residents about lead pipes. How to test yours.

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 ...

Milwaukee Water Works to host open houses for lead pipe removal program

Water Works will host several community meetings for eligible neighbors to learn more about its lead service line replacement ...
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Lead service line notices go out to 30,000 Des Moines Water Works customers

METV"> If you're a Des Moines Water Works customer... keep an eye on your mail. Notices about lead service lines are being sent out. Lead exposure can lead to health problems... especially for ...
Houston Chronicle

Are your water service lines made of 'unknown' materials? How to know if you have lead in your 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 ...
Yahoo

Area residents notified of lead pipe issues and offered replacement options

Nov. 16—Public water system customers across the region this month began receiving letters notifying them if their drinking water lines might contain lead or lead-absorbing materials, part of a state ...
Times Union

Even though lead pipes are gone, schools are still testing positive

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 ...
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Is your water pipe made of lead? Neighbors concerned after receiving letter: 'I think of Flint'

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — Underneath her feet and leaves sits Sunny Matheson’s water pipe. The Henrico County resident has lived in the house near Regency Square Mall for 20 years and has not thought much ...
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Could your home still have lead pipes for your drinking water? How to find out and what to do

Mention lead pipes and my first thought is of the Cluedo murder weapon – something from a bygone era when guests wandered through grand country houses with billiard rooms and libraries, plotting the ...

Alberta to test water for lead in all provincially-owned buildings

Alberta's government is planning to test the drinking water in all provincially-owned buildings for lead and copper, citing a ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Lead pipes are everywhere in Chicago. Here’s how to protect yourself.

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