Description: Copper is the best material for the rapid replacement of lead water service lines.
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As water infrastructure in North American ages, changes in water quality, water treatment practices and water infrastructure maintenance pose increasingly difficult challenges on water suppliers, municipalities and residents. Recent experiences like that of Flint, Michigan have brought to the forefront the inherent risk in not addressing the large volume of lead service lines buried within North America’s aging water infrastructure. A risk that with one change of the water supply or water treatment can expo
As local officials, building owners and taxpayers grapple with how to deal with the risk posed to drinking water, they are making decisions on piping replacement that can have effects long into the future.