North Dakota cities hunt for hazardous lead water pipes

North Dakota cities hunt for hazardous lead water pipes

BISMARCK — North Dakota’s public water systems have spent several years creating vast inventories of their service lines in an effort to find pipes made of lead, which pose a health threat. Now, communities are beginning to use that information to replace both public and private lines. Municipal and rural water systems across the country began mapping their service lines — pipes connecting buildings to water mains — after the U.S. Environmental …