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There is/was federal funding avaialble to do this if it was applied for. Would like to know more if Indianapolis applied for this funding.
It’s shocking that this requires a federal mandate.
Indiana, do better. This pays for itself through the reduced health hazards alone.
I surprised it was only 3% and 14th place isn’t that bad. If you want cast blame throw it on the utility companies. In all fairness they can’t replace EVERY line under the ground. It can costs millions of dollars to replace infrastructure.
The fact that Citizens estimates that there are 55,000 to 75,000 lead service lines in place tells me that they really haven’t even taken a look to see what they have. This has been a known problem for 20 years, and priority since we’ve seen what happened in Flint.
I live near downtown and I was lucky enough to afford to replace my own 50’ of lead water service line from the main to the meter. It was expensive. Very few of my neighbors could afford such a thing. The state legislature passed a law a few years ago to allow local water utilities to replace pipes all the way into the house specifically to remove lead pipes. There was a flood of federal dollars to remove lead pipes. In Michigan where this is a mandate, when utility companies replace lead service lines en-mass, the cost is about 1/5 of what I paid to have it done as private home owner.
I wrote to Citizens not too long after the state passed the new legislation. I don’t think it’s even a priority with them, because I never even got a reply.
I’m deeply disappointed that a company that seems as responsible as Citizens hasn’t made this more of a priority. It is not shocking to me that this is going to require a federal mandate to fix.
This is another misguided expenditure with no clearly quantifiable results. Many of the houses with lead pipes are older homes that may very well be at the end of their life expectancy. If there is an actual problem (e.g., the lead actually tests high), then fix those. Stop allowing government to mandate a one-size-fits-very-few solution to problems that don’t really exist. This certainly is not a federal issue – it’s a local government issue.
Lead pipes don’t normally leach lead, because there is basically a layer of “slime” on the inside of the pipes. The problem in Flint was when the know-it-all government actors decided to futz with the water supply, which resulted in the “slime” going away–that’s when the lead leached. Thus, the problem that the feds use to justify overreach here was caused by the government (as are many of our real problems). Same with lead paint – the key is to just leave it there and keep repainting over it. When you take the lead paint out, then you have to deal with all the unnecessarily expensive remediation. The feds should stay out of it and spend their time doing an internal audit to eliminate waste inside the government agencies.
The know-it-all government actor was appointed by the governor of Michigan who’d decided that the people of Flint couldn’t have their own elected officials, that they knew better.
But keep going with all the insight, because state interference with local issues is obviously superior. 🙄