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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.

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“A galvanized pipe is actually a steel pipe that has been coated in zinc and that zinc is to prevent corrosion, rust and pitting. Over time, that coating wears off,” Allman explained.

"We certainly applaud the city's efforts to hunt these (pipes) down," he said. "However, a larger problem may be that there are a lot of galvanized pipes in use nearly everywhere.

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.