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President Biden Wants To Replace All Lead Pipes. Flint Has Lessons To Share

Harold Harrington is a master plumber. Fixing people’s pipes is what he does. But it was something he found in his own home in Flint, Mich., that disturbed him.

“This came out of my house,” Harrington says as he holds a small piece of pipe. “This piece of galvanized was in my basement. It fed my upstairs faucet and this is out of my upstairs bathroom. … It’s full of lead.”

Harrington is among the tens of thousands of residents of Flint whose contaminated drinking water cast a spotlight on a threat faced by communities across the United States.

President Biden has proposed a jobs and infrastructure plan of more than $2 trillion that would set aside billions to replace the nation’s lead water pipes. When he announced his American Jobs Plan in April, the president pointed to Flint’s troubles as a cautionary tale about the dangers of letting infrastructure decay.

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4 thoughts on “President Biden Wants To Replace All Lead Pipes. Flint Has Lessons To Share”

  1. You know darn well pipes in my walls that aren’t exposed are galvanized. The two story was built in the forties. I’ve been there since the early seventies. I think we have more pressing issues than pipe. What say you?

  2. Right, don’t dare drink from that garden hose either that we grew up drinking from every day in the summer.

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