After Flint Water Crisis, Mich. Gov. Pushes For Replacement Of All Lead Pipes Within 20 Years
At the same time, though, Gov. Rick Snyder delayed for four years the implementation deadline for the nation's toughest drinking water lead limit. In addition, Flint's former utilities director pleads "no contest" in the city's ongoing water probe.
Gov. Rick Snyder鈥檚 administration is planning to require the replacement of every underground lead service pipe in Michigan within 20 years while delaying by four years a deadline to implement the nation鈥檚 toughest lead limit for drinking water, in the wake of the Flint lead crisis. Under draft rules that environmental regulators want to finalize early next year, Michigan鈥檚 鈥渁ction level鈥 for lead in drinking water would gradually drop to 10 parts per billion by 2024, not 2020 as initially proposed. The current federal threshold of 15 ppb has been criticized by the governor as too weak. (Eggert, 11/29)
The former utilities director in Flint, Michigan, has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor in an investigation of the city鈥檚 lead-tainted water. (11/28)
And from California -
Environmental activists sued Tuesday to halt a plan to pump water from beneath the Mojave Desert and sell it to Southern California cities and counties. The lawsuit takes aim at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for allowing Cadiz Inc. to build a 43-mile pipeline to transfer the water from its desert wells into the Colorado River Aqueduct so it can be sold to water districts. (Jablon, 11/28)
