{"id":2571,"date":"2018-11-26T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2018-11-26T19:40:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:40:30","slug":"over-6-million-lead-service-lines-still-in-use-across-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/over-6-million-lead-service-lines-still-in-use-across-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 6 Million Lead Service Lines Still in Use Across the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent <em>CBS News<\/em> report titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lead-in-americas-water-systems-is-a-national-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Lead in America&#8217;s water systems is a national problem&#8221;<\/a>, there are an estimated 6.1 million lead service lines currently in use across the United States that need to be replaced. More than half of those\u20143.4 million\u2014are located in the Midwest. These lines have the potential to (and may already be) enabling lead to enter the water going into homes, which can have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/lead-drinking-water-health-effects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dangerous impact on human health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>CBS News<\/em> report also notes these stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>0.5%<\/strong> is the rate America&#8217;s lead pipes are currently being replaced<\/li>\n<li><strong>200 years<\/strong> is roughly the amount of time it will take to replace all the lead pipes at this rate<\/li>\n<li><strong>18 million people<\/strong> are currently served by water systems that have violated EPA rules for lead in water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why is it so difficult to replace all of these lead service lines? The <em>CBS<\/em> report notes both the cost involved and the difficulty identifying all the lines that need to be replaced. Even in cities where the problem has elevated to more severe levels\u2014like Flint, Michigan, and, more recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/newark-new-jersey-water-lead-contamination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newark, New Jersey<\/a>\u2014finding an effective and affordable permanent solution to this problem remains a challenge for local, state, and federal officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could be decades (or longer) until all the lead pipes in American water systems are replaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enpress-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Over 6 Million Lead Service Lines Still in Use Across the U.S.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lead service lines in American water systems have become a national problem. 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