With 20-25% of St. Paul (Minnesota) Regional Water Services customers’ homes being serviced be lead pipes, the city’s Board of Water Commissioners is promoting the idea of an aggressive lead line replacement plan.
One member of the board called for a 10-year plan to replace all the lead pipes on public or private property at an estimated cost of $220 million.“I think we need to be bold on this. We need to say we are going to replace every lead pipe in the next 10 years — public and private — and push it,” commissioner and city council member Chris Tolbert
News Briefs: St. Paul Board Proposes Replacing All Lead Pipes
Also in this week's sewer and water news, the only water source for Billings, Montana, is running short as the Yellowstone River drops to a historic low
Jan 20, 2022
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