Out of sight, out of mind: Problems with decades-old pipes and sewers across American cities and towns are largely hidden and tend to be neglected for years before exploding into public crisis.
Last month, the Clarksburg Water Board in West Virginia announced that children from three homes were diagnosed with high lead levels, prompting the municipal authority to immediately replace pipes and launch a testing program throughout the system.
They are holding out hope that further funding will be provided in the $3.5 trillion budget package backed by President Joe Biden, which could be enacted later this year, despite Republican opposition. "The bursts are caused by breakdowns in aging and poorly maintained pipes and pumps that crack or fail," according to a November 2020 report.The worst incidents are in the majority-Black city of Mount Vernon, New York, less than 20 miles from Manhattan, where residents sometimes need to collect their own waste and empty it in a manhole.
The board replaced lead service lines -- which run from the street to the houses -- and provided bottled water to more than 500 homes with pipes suspected of containing lead."We may be the first in West Virginia with this problem, but we won't be the last," said Myers, who is enlisting the state's congressional delegation to win funding for a project that could cost more than $6 million.
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