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Homes built between the 1930’s and the 1980’s commonly have galvanized steel pipes for plumbing. Most of these homes should be re-piped to ensure removal of all the lead in your home’s piping.

Water customers who haven’t received a letter by the end of 2024 don’t need to worry; it means you have service line materials that do not contain lead or galvanized steel. In the past year or ...

Only about 20% of customers have self-reported what type of material their pipes are – lead, copper, galvanized metal or plastic – so volunteers will be helping out for the next five weeks.

Minnesota homeowners are discovering they have lead pipes. Here’s what they can do. Discovering that you have a lead or galvanized steel service line doesn’t always mean your health is at risk.

There are an additional 4,824 pipes that the city needs to inventory to determine whether they are lead or galvanized pipes. The federal loan includes $3.2 million to pay for the inventory.

But corrosion of lead pipes can still occur, so Allentown residents who have lead service or galvanized steel lines in their homes should be careful and take some steps to protect themselves.

170 Rockton area homes are attached to galvanized pipes that aren’t up to current EPA regulations. ROCKTON — The Village of Rockton is working to perform a lead service replacement plan.

At least 40,000 lead and galvanized metal pipes in Erie and Niagara counties will need to be removed and replaced by 2037 under new federal drinking water rules that took effect in November.

Olson says lead and galvanized pipes continue to be a problem, despite being banned in 1986. "A lot of people think this is only a problem, say, in Flint or a few big, older cities," Olson says.