A new state law will require city crews to significantly step up the pace of efforts to replace the approximately 390,000 lead service lines responsible for contaminating Chicagoans’ tap water.
Chicagoans who suspect they have a break or leak in their water service line should call 311, officials said.
Lightfoot said the city would start by removing lead service lines from homes and two-flats in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods with $15 million in federal grants. Through that program, crews would remove 650 pipes by the end of 2021, the mayor promised. Under another program, homeowners willing to foot the entire bill for the lead service line replacement program can get $3,500 in fees waived if they complete the removal themselves.
As part of the city’s 2023 budget, the City Council approved plans to borrow $336 million during the next five years at a low interest rate to cover the cost of ridding Chicago’s single-family homes and two-flats of the lead service lines. State officials granted Chicago a waiver this summer to allow city crews to use a trenchless technique that breaks up smaller portions of a street and sidewalk to get access to pipes underground in order to reach basements. Crews will use that method when appropriate, Chicago officials said.
Lightfoot ordered the installation of water meters in Chicago homes to stop in July 2019 after city officials found elevated levels of lead in more than one in five metered homes they tested — 13 months after officials first learned of the issue.
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