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Chicago's Toxic Lead Pipe Problem
Posted on 9/10/20 at 9:39 am
Posted on 9/10/20 at 9:39 am
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Chicago announces plan to start replacing lead water pipes after decades of denying the dangers
Chicago Tribune
Chicago, the last big American city to require water pipes made of brain-damaging lead, is now the last one beginning to rip toxic pipes out of the ground.
Under plans shared Wednesday with the Chicago Tribune, the Department of Water Management envisions a long and costly effort to protect Chicagoans from a widespread public health threat that remained largely hidden for decades.
Initial work will be modest compared with the scope of the dangers. Next year the city estimates it will replace only 750 of the roughly 400,000 lead service lines connecting homes to street mains, according to slides prepared by the water department.
Yet the new program from Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration is the latest example of a shifting mindset at City Hall, where mayors and aldermen resisted changes to Chicago’s plumbing code until Congress outlawed lead water pipes in 1986.
Former city officials — up to and including Mayor Rahm Emanuel — also denied for years that anyone could be harmed just by drawing a glass of water from their household faucet.
“It’s great that Mayor Lightfoot has done what none of her predecessors had the courage to do, which is to acknowledge the problem,” said Miguel del Toral, a retired U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official who played a key role in identifying similar threats in Flint, Michigan, and East Chicago, Indiana.
Chicago by far has more lead service lines than any other city. Detroit, with the second most, has about 125,000.
Ingesting tiny concentrations of the metal can permanently damage the developing brains of children and contribute to heart disease, kidney failure and other health problems later in life. In 2018, researchers estimated more than 400,000 deaths a year in the U.S. are linked to lead exposure.
Like other cities that already are replacing lead service lines, Chicago will rely on federal grants and low-interest loans to finance its work.
Most of the $19 million earmarked for next year will be spent in low-income neighborhoods where children also are endangered by dust from lead-based paint — still the largest source of exposure. The water service line will be replaced in 600 homes with high lead levels, some of which were identified through free testing kits distributed by the city.
Lightfoot is patting herself on the back, but at this rate, it will take 530 years to replace all of the lead service lines in the city.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 9:42 am to dewster
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This post was edited on 10/22/20 at 4:14 pm
Posted on 9/10/20 at 9:42 am to dewster
Denver has this issue too. The timeline is 15 years.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 9:42 am to dewster
Is lead pipe really a big danger or is this just a precaution?
Posted on 9/10/20 at 9:48 am to dewster
Lead was fine and dandy for generations until millennials came along. I guess it's not pH positive enough or whatever new water fad they're into.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 9:52 am to OysterPoBoy
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This post was edited on 10/22/20 at 4:14 pm
Posted on 9/10/20 at 9:52 am to dewster
Democratic leadership has been denying obvious dangers for decades?
GASP!!!!
GASP!!!!
Posted on 9/10/20 at 9:55 am to C
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lead pipe really a big danger or is this just a precaution?
Eat some paint chips and get back to us.
Hell yes lead is a major issue. I bet NOLA has the same problem. Most older large cities likely do. You won't hear DC sound an alarm though.
This post was edited on 9/10/20 at 9:58 am
Posted on 9/10/20 at 9:58 am to dewster
quote:Not even close to being the most dangerous lead in Chicago
Chicago's Toxic Lead Pipe Problem
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:00 am to OysterPoBoy
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Lead was fine and dandy for generations until millennials came along. I guess it's not pH positive enough or whatever new water fad they're into.
Wow you are fricking ignorant. Lead is universally known to be extremely dangerous, there isn't even a counter argument to be made. Way to make yourself look like a moron, boomer.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:00 am to dewster
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Chicago, the last big American city to require water pipes made of brain-damaging lead
Found the problem with Chicago Democrats!
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:03 am to OysterPoBoy
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Lead was fine and dandy for generations until millennials came along. I guess it's not pH positive enough or whatever new water fad they're into.
Poor man's gaucho.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:04 am to Rouge
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Democratic leadership has been denying obvious dangers for decades?
The party of the common man
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:05 am to dewster
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Chicago's Toxic Lead Pipe Problem
So that's why the BLM folks keep killing each other over there??
I knew it. I knew it had to be something other than the lack of responsibility, work ethic, family values and the absolute total disregard of human life.
I knew it. I knew it. I knew it.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:05 am to cooLStorybreaUx
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This post was edited on 9/25/20 at 8:44 am
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:06 am to Oilfieldbiology
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They could probably pump in non toxic corrosion inhibitor until they replace Them all
For the mains at least, they could also use a CIPP system so they don't have to physically dig up the existing pipe to replace but instead cure a pipe within the existing.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:07 am to OysterPoBoy
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Lead was fine and dandy for generations until millennials came along.
Millennials developed unleaded gas before they were even born?? Impressive to say the least
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:13 am to kciDAtaE
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Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:22 am to OysterPoBoy
quote:So was asbestos. I don’t know why we can’t just go back to the good old days smh
Lead was fine and dandy for generations until millennials came along.
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