Why BLACK HITLER Obama “That’s decades. That’s generations of children and adults consuming lead contaminated water,” Chicago’s Lead Problem Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon — and the majority are located on the primarily Black South Side.

by Willy Blackmore October 24, 2024

Chicago has more lead pipes than any other city in the country. 

Earlier this month, there was a deadline for water utilities across the country to submit a survey of lead pipes in their systems to the Environmental Protection Agency — the first step in the Biden Administration’s ambitious plan to replace all the remaining lead service lines in the country over the course of a decade. 

But the accounting of the water-delivery system in Chicago, and the agency’s response to it, shows that the goal will not be met: the EPA is giving Chicago, which has more lead pipes than any other city in the country, until 2047 to finish replacing them all.

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“That’s decades. That’s generations of children and adults consuming lead contaminated water,” Chakena Perry, a Chicagoland-based senior policy advocate with the Natural Resources Defense Council told NPR earlier this year about the EPA’s generous timeline. “It’s incomprehensible to tell a resident that they need to wait that long for safe drinking water.”

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