With dazzling success, the Lead Industries Association spent decades pushing the use of poisonous lead pipes and paint.

Metro Atlanta's largest water utilities, in response to a federal deadline, reported this fall that there were no lead pipes ...

Sand Creek Middle School does not have lead pipes for its drinking water, yet individual faucets would test positive for an unsafe amount of lead. Officials discovered the problem was lead in the ...

Although lead pipes were banned decades ago, millions of homes still contain them. In fact, lead from water service lines remains one of the leading causes of childhood lead poisoning. Lead is a ...

While Tooele City delivers safe drinking water to homes, water in older homes with lead pipes may have lead leaching into ...

The word “plumbing” comes from the Latin word for lead, plumbum. The Romans popularized the use of lead in water and sewer pipes and created a system for delivering water to individual buildings.

In some cases, the Arctic blast gripping Chicago could lead to frozen pipes, which could burst and lead to flooding.

Service lines are underground pipes that connect the city’s main water supply to a house’s internal plumbing. Galvanized service lines, if downstream from lead pipes, can absorb the toxin and ...

DWU’s letter included a QR code and a website you can use to answer a five-question survey about your pipes. After lead was deemed harmful in the mid-1980s everyone switched mostly to plastic pipes.

The federal government banned the use of lead pipes or solder in drinking water ... The letters explained how property owners could check their own pipe materials. About 1,000 people have done ...