Michigan is set to announce that it has finally replaced all of the lead water pipes in the city of Flint.The news comes a ...

Flint, Michigan, is still working on replacing all of its lead pipes. The effort was supposed to be finished years ago, but ...

Officials said fallout from the crisis led the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in October 2024 to make changes to the process used to detect lead in drinking water samples. The EPA also lowered ...

The contamination in Flint, Michigan, sparked a national dialogue about the harms of lead pipes and the country’s aging water infrastructure.

Despite the high number of lead lines, Detroit has been able to meet federal standards by treating its water with phosphates, which controls pipe corrosion, Lattimore said.

Lead pipe rules face debate ... They say corrosion controls that have limited lead exposure can and do fail, pointing to human and systemic errors that prompted the water crisis in Flint, ...

One of the first lead pipes that was removed from Veronica Kelly's home shows the extent of the corrosion the harder Flint River water has had on Feb. 22, 2016 at her home on the city's north side.

There are nearly 250,000 pipes carrying drinking water in New York City that are made of lead or may contain lead. But figuring out what to do if you live in a building served by one of those ...

The mapping tool is part of a government effort to replace all lead pipes in the state by 2033. ... Public water systems are required to take steps to control potential corrosion.

Only about 400 homes have so far been verified to have lead pipes in OCWA’s service area, Brown said. But about 70,000 pipes are unverified or have unknown materials, he said.

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Jeffrey Bell watched as crews dug up and replaced neighbors’ lead water pipes, hoping his mother’s house would be next. Workers told him it wasn’t on their list but ...