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Chicago Has Hundreds of Thousands of Toxic Lead Pipes—and Millions of Unspent Dollars to Replace Them
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Replacements of Chicago’s more than 412,000 confirmed and suspected lead service lines are lagging.
Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez at a hearing on lead service lines.
The water management department spent about $41.5 million of $60 million authorized for lead service line replacements in 2023, White said.
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