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Chicago lead pipe replacement to improve safety of the city’s drinking water supply is moving at a snail’s pace.
Chicago lead pipe replacement
Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune
A worker from the Chicago Department of Water Management clears a path in the ditch as they work to replace a lead waterline with a copper pipe from the main pipe under the street into a house on Aug. 30, 2021, in the 8300 block of South Hermitage Avenue. The old lead service pipe was to remain buried in the ground. 
