More than half a million Houston-area residents were due letters this month to warn them that their drinking water might be leaching lead from old service lines. An Environmental Protection Agency ...

Lead plumbing was banned in the United States in 1986, but new data assembled by Connecticut’s water utilities show there may still be thousands of lead pipes carrying water into homes, apartments and ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Oakland student Hannah Lau said she only discovered there were elevated lead levels in her school’s drinking water this year through her ...

Gainesville Regional Utilities is conducting an inventory of its water service lines to ensure none are made of lead following recent rule changes by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Jennifer ...

Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic lead service lines, the underground pipes that connect buildings to the city’s water supply. The city has the most lead service lines in the ...

Rhode Island has launched a new online tool that allows residents to check if their homes have lead service lines. The mapping tool is part of a government effort to replace all lead pipes in the ...

The federal government is investing billions of dollars to crack down on lead in water sources nationwide, including through new requirements for water systems to track lead contamination in schools’ ...

More than one-third of home test kits sent in for testing by residents to the city’s environmental agency over the past decade had some level of lead — results that reflect many New Yorkers’ continued ...

Inventories obtained by 11 News Investigates reveal how many water pipes still need to be checked for lead as a new federal deadline looms. More than 320,000 water pipes in Baltimore City and ...

MODEL. JASON ASHLEY, BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS LEAD WATER ISSUES IN THE PAST ARE WELL DOCUMENTED, BUT OVER FIVE YEARS OF RECENT TESTING, CITY SCHOOLS HAVE SEEN LOWER LEVELS OF LEAD THAN MOST OTHER ...

More than 20 school districts in Nassau County have had their drinking water test positive for lead, according to data released by the state Health Department ...

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