North Dakota cities hunt for hazardous lead water pipes

By: Ceilidh Kern

Outlets: North Dakota Monitor

Published: March 16, 2026

Words: 1,227

Last Updated: 5 days, 2 hours ago

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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 Protection Agency required them …

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