The US city that proves replacing lead water lines needn’t be a pipe dream
by Lynne Peeples from on (#5M85Y)
Newark, New Jersey, has removed more than 20,000 lead water lines while the White House pushes national plan
- This story is co-published with Ensia
In July 2018, tests showed that the drinking water supply serving Yvette Jordan's home in Newark, New Jersey, contained nearly 45 parts per billion (ppb) of lead - three times the US Environmental Protection Agency's action level for the neurotoxic heavy metal.
It was a similar story for many families across her city. A lead crisis had struck Newark, and it was drawing comparisons to the tainted water that devastated Flint, Michigan, a few years earlier.
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