Through the administration’s new Lead Pipe and Paint Action Plan, agencies will take a number of steps meant to remove the toxic metal from places where people live, work or go to school.

Flint residents continue to use water filters after a disastrous switch to the Flint River as a drinking water source in 2014 poisoned the city's water supply with high levels of lead.

CHICAGO — In her basement on the South Side of Chicago, Crystal Vance beamed a flashlight on the water source for her home: a rusted and leaking lead pipe. Vance, 35, knows well the dangers of ...

While Detroit, a city that went through bankruptcy, made the decision to remove all of its lead water pipes to prevent lead poisoning, the city of Chicago opted to leave many lead pipes in the ground.

“We’re going to use it as efficiently as possible.” Fox Lake will be able to replace approximately 167 lead service lines with a forgivable loan of slightly more than $2.1 million.

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. If you have lead or galvanized steel, these pipes will need to ...

More than 70,000 service lines in the city are lead-free, the water department said. The city compiled its lead pipe inventory by collecting data from historical records, field inspections, permits ...

As the first step in a 10-year plan to rid the New Orleans of toxic lead pipes, the Sewerage & Water Board will begin removing as many as 300 water lines leading to schools and daycare centers.