U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer discusses the need for the removal and replacement of thousands of lead service lines in Buffalo and Erie County on Monday, May 6, 2024.
ALBANY 鈥 New York could have twice as many lead-contaminated waterlines as once thought, increasing the state鈥檚 burden to replace them all by a 2037 federal deadline, a clean water activist testified before a joint legislative panel.
Contractors work to open a hole along Adams Street in Tonawanda to test for lead water pipes in May.聽August data from the state Health Department said 285,000 waterlines are confirmed to have lead contamination; close to another million are unknown and possibly lead-contaminated.
Rows of pipes made of different materials are used to test the difference in water quality treatment methods across the array of pipe types that currently exist within the county's water system.
Contractors work to open a hole along Adams Street in Tonawanda to test for lead water pipes in May.聽August data from the state Health Department said 285,000 waterlines are confirmed to have lead contamination; close to another million are unknown and possibly lead-contaminated.
Rows of pipes made of different materials are used to test the difference in water quality treatment methods across the array of pipe types that currently exist within the county's water system.
