City Rolls Out Plan to Slowly Replace
Lead Service Lines Shown to
Contaminate Tap Water in Homes
WTTW-TV (Chicago),
by
Heather Cherone
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
9/10/2020 3:55:33 PM
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday unveiled a plan to replace the lead service lines responsible for contaminating the tap water in thousands of Chicago homes “over multiple decades” that relies on federal and state funds.
Lightfoot’s voluntary plan lays out a timeline that would take more than 500 years to replace the lead service lines that connect approximately 400,000 Chicago homes with water mains buried under Chicago streets. (Snip) Lightfoot’s announcement represents a major shift in city policy, and a break from former Mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel, who considered water delivery pipes — or service lines — to be the responsibility of the property owner.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
john56 9/10/2020 4:07:51 PM (No. 536869)
Did she start the presser by first blaming Pres Trump for the lead that has been in Chicago water pipes since when God was a kid.?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/10/2020 4:09:11 PM (No. 536871)
FTA:
The city will remove the first lead service lines from 600 homes with high levels of lead in the drinking water in low-income neighborhoods with $15 million in federal grants, according to Lightfoot’s plan.
Households that earn less than $72,800 for a family of four whose home’s tap water has more than 15 parts per billion of lead will have their lead service lines replaced for free, according to the plan.
First convince them they are being poisoned. Then be the Fixer sent to save them. With federal money.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
smokincol 9/10/2020 4:26:46 PM (No. 536893)
mayor leadfoot will replace the water lines that cause health problems but ONLY to the wealthy areas of Chicago.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/10/2020 4:57:30 PM (No. 536927)
Huh. The average person lives to the age of 85. The project will take 500 years to complete. Who is kidding who here, Lighthead?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Grounded 9/10/2020 5:09:11 PM (No. 536936)
The way it works around here is the line from the main to the meter is the city's responsibility and from the meter to the building is on the property owner.
They had lead pipes in Roman times with the attendant poisoning. It's unconscionable that the powers that be in the Windy City have allowed the problem to remain unresolved given that the health dangers from heavy metal contamination have been known for decades.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
The Other Guy 9/10/2020 5:57:01 PM (No. 536960)
I've owned homes in Utah and Kentucky. As mentioned by another poster, the city owned from both the water and gas mains to the meters and anything beyond the meter was my problem.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
volksford 9/10/2020 6:01:56 PM (No. 536963)
Lead pipes may explain a helluva a lot about these Chicago malcontents
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We use a Berkey for all our drinking water! Tastes great and is safe!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/10/2020 8:46:42 PM (No. 537067)
All because of climate change and the fault of Trump.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hershey 9/10/2020 8:55:09 PM (No. 537069)
Wow only 500 years to replace the lines??? What next, she blaming lead contamination for all the other troubles she has caused in Chicago? What a wanker she is...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2 9/11/2020 12:14:55 AM (No. 537151)
If she's going to rely on state and fed grant money, how much will she siphon off for herself and fellow demonic demonrats? There should be no grant money. If you can't pay for it yourself, why should taxpayers get soaked for the bill? BTW, get out of Chicago while you still can.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 9/11/2020 2:35:37 PM (No. 537704)
In almost all normal water systems, calcium deposits overlay the interior surface of ALL pipes within a month or so of water starting flowing. After that calcium/lime layer is laid down, it makes no difference at all what the pipe is made of.
I call BS unless someone shows some human beings with elevated blood lead levels. So far, in every single story I have read on the Flint "lead pipe problem" there has been NO reporting of any persons with elevated lead levels. Only stories about lead in pipes.....not that it has actually wound up in water at significant levels.
And "detectable" is a LIE in most cases. Thirty years ago we could detect at something like a few parts per million or greater concentrations. Now with more advanced equipment we can detect at about 1 part per billion or even 1 part per trillion. What this means from a practical standpoint is that we can detect almost ANYTHING almost ANYWHERE if we try hard enough. "Detected" is WAY different from dangerous levels since our detection is thousands to millions of times more sensitive today. And of course, the EPA has lowered allowable levels - without scientific basis of proof of harm at the lower levels, just "it's bad, so none is allowed" kind of insanity. Old truth: Dose makes the poison. Anything is OK at a low enough dosage.
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