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The state says residents can still face lead exposure due to lead pipes inside their homes. Residents are still being told not to drink the city's water.
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The St. Joseph County Department of Health will offer free lead testing for children under seven years old in South Bend on Oct. 26 as part of national lead poisoning prevention week.
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The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority will use nearly $5 million in federal funding for grants to mitigate lead paint and radon issues in more than 160 homes across the state.
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According to a Tuesday release from the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services, more than 90 percent of the lines in the city have now been inspected and replaced with copper lines or verified non-lead.
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How Indiana defines a “disadvantaged community” could exclude some Black and Brown neighborhoods disproportionately harmed by lead.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Sunday that more than 80 percent of Benton Harbor’s lead water service lines have been replaced, putting the project ahead of schedule.
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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy said the 90th percentile value of lead in the city's drinking water was 14 parts per billion, just within the federal action level.
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Remediation work is expected to begin soon at the Beck’s Lake Superfund site in South Bend, which includes all of LaSalle Park and two nearby residential lots.
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Since elevated levels of lead were discovered in Benton Harbor’s tap water, the city has inspected or replaced roughly one in five water service lines. The goal is to complete the work by Spring 2023.
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EPA overseeing cleanup, lead soil removal at Beck's Lake Superfund site in South Bend's LaSalle ParkIn the 1930s and 40s, the Beck’s Lake area on South Bend’s west side was used as an industrial dumping ground.