Many American cities have been excavating water mains, revealing lead pipes and leaving them there. The work’s disruption of the pipe can also spike lead levels, an investigation by The Associated Press has found.
There is a project to replace them in my city, but there are something like 60,000+ homes that need to be switched over and they only get to a few hundred each year.
If there is nothing wrong with the lateral, the city will pay for the half that is on their side and you pay the other half. That is fair, but you’re still shelling out $4,200 for your half, which basically doubles your taxes for the year. A lot of people can’t afford that, especially right now.
The people who can’t afford to have it fixed are then drinking lead filled water and giving lead tainted water to their children, causing expensive cognitive issues that impact education costs and incarceration rates in the future.
So maybe the people complaining are conservatives who want to have their cake and eat it too, but no matter who the complainers are, this is an issue that needs to be addressed because it impacts us all.
There is a project to replace them in my city, but there are something like 60,000+ homes that need to be switched over and they only get to a few hundred each year.
If there is nothing wrong with the lateral, the city will pay for the half that is on their side and you pay the other half. That is fair, but you’re still shelling out $4,200 for your half, which basically doubles your taxes for the year. A lot of people can’t afford that, especially right now.
The people who can’t afford to have it fixed are then drinking lead filled water and giving lead tainted water to their children, causing expensive cognitive issues that impact education costs and incarceration rates in the future.
So maybe the people complaining are conservatives who want to have their cake and eat it too, but no matter who the complainers are, this is an issue that needs to be addressed because it impacts us all.