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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: Replacing Chicago’s lead pipes will take decades
Description: Chicago has more lead service lines than any place in the country.
Although the dangerous lead pipes were banned in 1986, the city laid down a significant number before the ban took effect.
A recent federal rule mandated that water systems across the country finish replacing all their lead pipes in about two decades.
But an investigation by WBEZ, Grist and Inside Climate News found Chicago’s plan could take 30 years longer.
Here to tell us more is Keerti Gopal from Inside Climate News and WBEZ’s Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco.
HOST: DIXON