Galvanized water service lines can absorb lead particles. Crews are working to remove approximately 40,000 to 50,000 lead service lines by 2037, replacing them with copper pipes.

The city has identified more than 17,000 non-lead pipes and almost 2,700 galvanized pipes. About 80% of those are on the customers' side, he said.

Leonard Kowalski took 2 On Your Side through a home in Amherst and offered tips for locating and testing the material of your water service line.

The City of Sulphur water system identified 258 pipes as galvanized. The City of Lake Charles has completed its inventory and identified all 32,598 of their pipes as non-lead. Only a few areas of the ...

On the customer side, there are 16 private homes and businesses in the city with known lead service lines, 5,958 with galvanized lines and 36,115 whose service lines are unknown.

385 galvanized "requiring replacement" service lines 335,694 service lines with unknown material 119,964 non-lead service lines Meaning, that most of the region’s service lines still need to be ...

As many as a million Massachusetts residents across the state were sent letters this month, warning them that the water pipes that service their homes could have lead in them. It’s the ultimate ...

City notices that went out as part of new EPA lead and copper rules warned 33,000 water customers that their private water service lines could be lead.

The lead pipe is gray. A galvanized pipe is gray as well, but you know it's galvanized if it's also magnetic. You can use a fridge magnet to figure it out.

Because water intakes are private property, Baker said homeowners will be liable for any costs in replacing lead pipes discovered during the survey. They’ll have 10 years to remove the lead.

Galvanized steel can be a dull gray or rusted and copper pipes are usually brown, but can oxidize to appear more green, like a penny. Customers can try applying a magnet to their pipe.

In the U.S., the use of lead pipes for new drinking water service systems was outlawed in 1986. However, the EPA estimates there are about 9.2 million lead service lines remaining in the U.S.