Since 2017, citywide lead levels have been within the range the federal government deems safe (though houses considered high risk do continue to show elevated levels). But nearly four years after a court order required the replacement of lead pipes in Flint’s water system, that work is only just now approaching completion.According to the City of Flint, 9,912 lead pipes (and galvanized-steel pipes that contain flakes of lead) had been removed and replaced as of December 25, 2020. That’s far fewer than the estimated 18,000 lead pipes in the city’s entire water system — but that number may include “homes that are not currently occupied, or are not having active water accounts,” according to Eric Schwartz, a professor at the University of Michigan who helped develop the predictive model the city has used to locate all of the lead.There are still somehow locations the city positively knows have lead pipes that have yet to be removed, and other locations that have a high probability of having them. But as Flint comes closer and closer to digging out that last in-use lead pipe, the excavations are focusing on less and less probable sites, where the pipes are more difficult to find, making for a slower finish to the race.
Since 2017, citywide lead levels have been within the range the federal government deems safe (though houses considered high risk do continue to show elevated levels). But nearly four years after a court order required the replacement of lead pipes in Flint’s water system, that work is only just now approaching completion.According to the City of Flint, 9,912 lead pipes (and galvanized-steel pipes that contain flakes of lead) had been removed and replaced as of December 25, 2020. That’s far fewer than the estimated 18,000 lead pipes in the city’s entire water system — but that number may include “homes that are not currently occupied, or are not having active water accounts,” according to Eric Schwartz, a professor at the University of Michigan who helped develop the predictive model the city has used to locate all of the lead.There are still somehow locations the city positively knows have lead pipes that have yet to be removed, and other locations that have a high probability of having them. But as Flint comes closer and closer to digging out that last in-use lead pipe, the excavations are focusing on less and less probable sites, where the pipes are more difficult to find, making for a slower finish to the race.
And yet, you have failed once again to provide me with any proof, of anything that I talked about in my latest reply to you where you acted like you knew everything about them, whatsoever. Shocking, I know, but I did say in advance that I have low expectations of you to actually prove that you legitimately know what (and, in the case of Memology, who) you are talking about.
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