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Removing lead pipes only up to a property — a partial replacement — could make contamination worse because metals inside the pipe dislodge during excavation.

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Lansing, MI, facing a similar problem, will also be removing 14,500 pipes in a 10 year, $40 million dollar project

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the lead levels were so low that the EPA requires water samples every 3 years instead on annually

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ever since the project's completion, Madison's lead levels were well under the Lead and Copper Rule's "action"

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decade of digging and copper-pipe replacement at a cost of nearly $20 million

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“As long as there are lead pipes in the ground or lead plumbing in homes, some risk remains,” says David LaFrance, chief executive of the American Water Works Association

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Madison dug out and replaced all 8,000 pipes because their lead measured 16 parts per billion, one part per billion over the Environmental Protection Agency's standard (one millionth of a liter)

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Madison, WI experienced water with unacceptable levels of lead (P5)

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