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Flint will soon remove its last eligible lead pipe under NRDC’s
landmark settlement agreement. What’s next:
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Dear NRDC Supporter,
We should all be able to drink a glass of
tap water and not worry about whether it’s free from lead. Today,
I am delighted to share that Flint, Michigan’s court-ordered lead
pipe replacement program has been completed, with almost 11,000
lead and galvanized steel service lines pulled out of the ground.
More than a decade since Flint’s water
crisis began, the last lead pipe eligible for removal under
NRDC’s landmark settlement agreement was finally replaced.
Learn more about this monumental victory
for safe drinking water that was a decade in the making. ( [link removed] )
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Workers repair sidewalks in front of a
house that had lead pipes removed in Flint, Michigan.
It all began in 2014 when the city of
Flint switched its drinking water supply from Detroit’s system to
the Flint River in an effort to save money. The inadequately
treated water was foul-smelling, discolored, and off-tasting.
Worse yet was that after more than a year
of residents sounding the alarm, independent water testing in the
fall of 2015 showed serious and widespread lead contamination.
Another study showed elevated blood-lead levels in children
citywide had doubled since 2014.
Lead is an extremely dangerous neurotoxin
that harms the developing brain, severely impairing mental and
physical development, and is especially dangerous for children
and pregnant people. In adults, it can also cause increased blood
pressure, fatal heart disease, kidney impairment, and cancer.
There is no safe level of lead.
This was a full-blown emergency. We knew we had to act, so NRDC joined local
partners to file a lawsuit against the city of Flint and Michigan
state officials.
Read more about how we won a landmark
settlement requiring the city to locate and replace lead service
lines — and then went back to court SIX more times to be able to
say today that nearly 11,000 lead pipes have been removed in
Flint. ( [link removed] )
While the residents of Flint can rest
easier knowing that the vast majority of lead pipes are gone, we
won’t rest until every community in the United States can say the
same. A 2024 NRDC report estimates that over 9 million lead water
pipes are delivering drinking water to homes across the United
States — from Newark to Chicago to Atlanta.
Between hundreds of thousands of
supporters like you submitting public comment and our litigation
and advocacy in cities like Flint and Newark tackling the
lead-contaminated tap water crisis, we scored a big win last
fall: The Biden-Harris administration released the Lead and
Copper Improvements Rule, which requires virtually all lead water
pipes across the nation to be removed within 10 years.
But the fight is far from over. Water
utilities filed a selfish lawsuit against the EPA to stop the new
stronger standards. And while NRDC and our partners are working
hard to uphold the new rule, the Trump administration has not
committed to removing the dangerous lead pipes serving millions
of peoples’ homes and to defending the rule’s crucial health
protections.
We’re tracking this case closely and
considering all our options to defend these standards — including
fighting back in court if that’s what it takes to ensure safe
drinking water for all.
We’ve proven once that an outpouring of
support can convince our leaders to protect our drinking water.
We can do it again.
Send a letter to the EPA telling them
that you demand safe drinking water for all. ( [link removed] )
After all, clean drinking water is a
basic human right, and our success in Flint proved that it can be
made accessible to everyone. We will keep fighting — like we
always have — for the strongest standards possible.
Sincerely,
Erik D. Olson
Senior Strategic Director, Environmental Health, NRDC
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and the natural systems on which all life depends.
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