Have you received a notice that your pipes might be made of lead?
The Connecticut Mirror’s investigative team has been reporting on Connecticut’s lead pipe infrastructure in:
- Bridgeport
- Willimantic
- Middletown
- New London
- Waterbury
- Greenwich
If you’ve received a notice from your local water utility that your service line might be made of lead, send us an email at projects@ctmirror.org.
Home builders and water utilities were banned in the mid-1980s from using lead plumbing. But as thousands of people across Connecticut recently learned, there are a significant number of lead service lines installed before 1986 still supplying homes, apartments and other properties in the state.
Data obtained by The Connecticut Mirror shows there could be as many as 8,000 lead service lines still in use in public water systems throughout the state — though that number is likely to change as water utilities continue to inspect basements, unearth pipes and comb through century-old records to verify how much lead remains in the ground.
Read our investigation here: A Buried Threat: Thousands in CT might still be drinking water from lead pipes
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