Peduto says it would cost Pittsburgh $411M to replace lead water lines (homes, transfer)

[Goinback2011]

Water bills will be going up.

"We are looking at over the next 20 years an investment needed to be able to provide safe drinking water of $4 billion to $5 billion on top of a $1 billion debt,” the mayor said. “We would be basically increasing rates on an average of double in order to be able to make that, possibly triple.”

Peduto says it would cost Pittsburgh $411M to replace lead water lines | TribLIVE

[SteelCityRising]

Tripling water bills in 2017 because prior generations who knew about the contaminated water supply refused to pay nominal increases years ago to nip this problem in the bud long before costs ballooned. Lovely. Maybe we can fix our drinking water instead of building the wall?

[tyovan4]

This is shenanigans created by Chelsa Wagner.
The lead exposure risk to children doesn't come from water lines. It comes from the paint in homes... but that's not a sexy topic, so nobody outside of those who actually know what's going on talks about it.

[Kippy]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

Maybe we can fix our drinking water instead of building the wall?

Why can't we do both?

[szug-bot]

I have an idea - let's raise the transfer tax again. Or, rape the employees' pensions!

Anything is better than actual accountability.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by Kippy

Why can't we do both?

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by tyovan4

This is shenanigans created by Chelsa Wagner.
The lead exposure risk to children doesn't come from water lines. It comes from the paint in homes... but that's not a sexy topic, so nobody outside of those who actually know what's going on talks about it.

Most urban lead exposure these days is not from leaded paint, it's from residue from leaded gasoline (particularly diesel) which remains in soil in urban areas.

[krogerDisco]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

Tripling water bills in 2017 because prior generations who knew about the contaminated water supply refused to pay nominal increases years ago to nip this problem in the bud long before costs ballooned. Lovely. Maybe we can fix our drinking water instead of building the wall?

How about building a lead wall? Trump pays Pittsburgh with safe pipes. Kill two birds with one stone.

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by Kippy

Why can't we do both?

Because one is stupid.

[airwave09]

Originally Posted by gladhands

Because one is stupid.

I dunno having an unpolluted water supply sounds pretty important to me, although lead is just one contaminant from a laundry list of crap in tap water supply today. You can thank fracking and stupid outdated policies that have toxic fluoride added into the water.