An Arizona creek threatened by pollution from a proposed copper mine near Phoenix will receive lead and copper contamination limits under a proposed consent decree that the Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday. Under the proposed decree, the EPA will establish a total maximum daily load,...
The proposal, called the lead and copper rule improvements, would for the first time require utilities to replace lead pipes even if their lead levels aren't too high. Most cities have not been forced to replace their lead pipes and many don't even know where they are. Some cities with ...
Role of the Water Main in a Lead Service Line Replacement Program: A Utility Case Study Flawed science begets flawed policy: EPA's Lead and Copper Rule, partial lead service line replacement, and elevated blood lead levels among children Yanna Lambrinidou, Marc A. Edwards Impact of galvanic ...
EPA is generally agreeing with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that better data on where lead service lines are located would improve the agency's oversight of the Safe Drinking Water Act Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), though the agency stops short of committing to GAO's call to ...
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) criticized the Environmental Protection Agency's lead and copper rule as being deficient and vowed his state would enact its own, more strict regulation to better protect human health. During his State of the State address Jan. 17, Snyder said his administration ...