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On Thursday the City's water department workers could be found on the southwest side with a major transformation underway.

The Biden administration on Thursday proposed to require drinking water pipes made with lead to be replaced in 10 years. Under the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) newly proposed “Lead and Copper Rule Improvements,” water systems would have to replace lead service lines in 10 years, with limited exceptions. The proposal comes nearly a decade after…

The Biden administration on Thursday proposed new actions to replace lead pipes in public water systems across the country in a continuing effort to eliminate lead poisoning among children and families.

Local utilities across the country would have to dig up and replace aging lead water pipes within 10 years under a Biden administration proposal.

When Sukky Bleck’s infant son was diagnosed last year with bilateral hydronephrosis, a condition preventing urine from draining from the kidney into the bladder, she started questioning herself. “Was it something I did? What did I do wrong? How can I fix it,” the 27-year-old Southeast Side resident said. Bleck said she soon became haunted by whether lead-contaminated drinking water might have ...