General Biden announces 10-year deadline to remove all lead pipes nationwide

[kvr28]

That money is not going to be even close to enough


Milwaukee, Wisconsin – President Biden on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in funding to replace all lead pipes in the United States as part of a new EPA rule that will require lead pipes to be identified and replaced within 10 years using the new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

The EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. still have lead pipes. The city of Milwaukee, where Mr. Biden is making the announcement, has 65,000 lead pipes, which the city says will cost an estimated $700 million to remove.

"We're here today because we're finally addressing an issue that should have been addressed a long time ago in this country — the danger that lead pipes pose to our drinking water," Mr. Biden said. "For too long, local communities have known how important it was to deal with this problem. It hadn't been given the national priority that it demanded though. I'm here today to tell you that I'm finally insisting that it gets prioritized and I'm insisting it get done."

The president said this effort is about "fairness," and nearly half of the funding will go to disadvantaged communities "that have borne the brunt of lead pipe poisoning for damn too long."

Biden announces 10-year deadline to remove all lead pipes nationwide

The EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. have lead pipes.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Fan_of_Fanboys]

I skimmed the article but I didn't see what they require it will be replaced with. Copper? PVC or some variation? How will the lead pipes be disposed? Do the poor black people pay out of pocket and file a claim for reimbursement? Or will the government pay private companies directly? What safeguards are in place to ensure people are not replacing damaged non-lead pipes on tax payers dime?

 

[supersonic]

My prediction, five years into the 10 year plan a total of about 30' of lead pipe will have been replaced and the money will be gone.

 

[Ramon Maroni]

I skimmed the article but I didn't see what they require it will be replaced with. Copper? PVC or some variation? How will the lead pipes be disposed? Do the poor black people pay out of pocket and file a claim for reimbursement? Or will the government pay private companies directly? What safeguards are in place to ensure people are not replacing damaged non-lead pipes on tax payers dime?

LOL

like there is any thought at all into this

 

[kvr28]

I skimmed the article but I didn't see what they require it will be replaced with. Copper? PVC or some variation? How will the lead pipes be disposed? Do the poor black people pay out of pocket and file a claim for reimbursement? Or will the government pay private companies directly? What safeguards are in place to ensure people are not replacing damaged non-lead pipes on tax payers dime?

It's virtue signaling, there is no issue with lead pipes as long as the water source is treated properly with orthophosphate. That's what happened in flint, they changed their water source to save money and never treated the water correctly.

 

[Ramon Maroni]

My prediction, five years into the 10 year plan a total of about 30' of lead pipe will have been replaced and the money will be gone.

5???

I'll take the under on that one

 

[Discomboobulated]

I skimmed the article but I didn't see what they require it will be replaced with. Copper? PVC or some variation? How will the lead pipes be disposed? Do the poor black people pay out of pocket and file a claim for reimbursement? Or will the government pay private companies directly? What safeguards are in place to ensure people are not replacing damaged non-lead pipes on tax payers dime?

 

[sparkuri]

There is nothing relayed by Biden from the Derp State that doesn't have an ulterior & nefarious purpose.
Just off the top of my head:

- Creates tyrannical control over homes purchased, derivitives being DEI & LEED certified construction & replacements, their associated base materials, contracts & government "oversight".
- Insurance fine print
- Tax-related fine print
- Home seizure/foreclosures based on non-compliance
- Creating grounds for "safety-related" imminent domain seizures
- Micro-plastic or publicly unknown dangerous replacement material
- "Smart technology" monitoring
- If other material replacement eg copper, insider trading & international price controls(think "coin shortage".
- Virtue signaling being a distant voter manipulation

100% by any measure, not that it needs to be said, has zero to do with "health" or benevolence.

 

[Hauler]

That money is not going to be even close to enough


Milwaukee, Wisconsin – President Biden on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in funding to replace all lead pipes in the United States as part of a new EPA rule that will require lead pipes to be identified and replaced within 10 years using the new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

The EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. still have lead pipes. The city of Milwaukee, where Mr. Biden is making the announcement, has 65,000 lead pipes, which the city says will cost an estimated $700 million to remove.

"We're here today because we're finally addressing an issue that should have been addressed a long time ago in this country — the danger that lead pipes pose to our drinking water," Mr. Biden said. "For too long, local communities have known how important it was to deal with this problem. It hadn't been given the national priority that it demanded though. I'm here today to tell you that I'm finally insisting that it gets prioritized and I'm insisting it get done."

The president said this effort is about "fairness," and nearly half of the funding will go to disadvantaged communities "that have borne the brunt of lead pipe poisoning for damn too long."

Biden announces 10-year deadline to remove all lead pipes nationwide

The EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. have lead pipes.

www.cbsnews.com

Typical election-time pandering. They have zero intentions to fix anything.

 

[MountainMedic]

I legit thought we took care of this in the 70s

 

[MXR]

To save money and get the job done they should hire all the illegals to do it .

 

[kvr28]

I legit thought we took care of this in the 70s

For new construction not existing, NYC/LA would blow through that money alone.

 

[MXR]

They can pay the illegals wages from the money Kamala stole from FEMA