The EPA on Tuesday finalized a lead pipe rule requiring service lines containing the ... Some environmental advocates and lawmakers have urged the EPA to decrease the acceptable level to 5 ppb, ...

The study found 15 to 16 percent of samples had undetectable levels, 20 percent had 0.25 to 1 parts per billion (or ppb), 40 percent had between 1 and 5 ppb, 16 percent had 5 to 15 ppb and 5 ...

Valparaiso is launching a city-wide water service line inventory to comply with the EPA's revised Lead and ... Valparaiso's lead levels have been well below 15 ppb. In 2023, levels were at 6.5 ...

Another day, another class action lawsuit in the food world. A lawsuit initially filed in February by the California Federal ...

New Orleans, according to recent EPA estimates, is one of the top 10 cities in the country based on the known number of lead pipes. “We may have a higher number in terms of the percentage of the ...

Those levels fell to 5.6, 1.8 and 9 ppb respectively on the second tests. Those elevated levels of lead are likely related to fixtures, like the faucet itself, rather than plumbing, the city said ...

Growing evidence of lead’s negative health effects, especially in children, led the EPA to ban its use in pipes in 1986 and fuel for on-road vehicles in 1996. Nebraska banned lead in new water ...

In October 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled out new rules cracking down on lead levels in drinking water. The agency updated the Lead and Copper Rule, lowering the action ...

Syracuse’s 70 parts per billion (ppb) level is far higher than the 27 ppb that independent testing found in Flint and the 57 ppb found in Newark, where EPA took emergency action due to the ...

However, lead is sometimes present in pipes connecting older homes to the water system or in fixtures and home plumbing. 27 out of 104 homes recently sampled exceeded EPA action levels.

The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized revisions to a lead-in-drinking-water ... Some environmental advocates and lawmakers have urged the EPA to decrease the acceptable level to 5 ppb, ...

Those levels fell to 5.6, 1.8 and 9 ppb respectively on the second tests. Those elevated levels of lead are likely related to fixtures, like the faucet itself, rather than plumbing, the city said ...