Metal Pipe Association Joins Push Against PVC Replacements For LSLs

A trade group representing metal pipe manufacturers is joining environmentalists in urging municipalities to replace the estimated nine million lead service lines (LSLs) being targeted for removal under EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) with metal rather than PVC pipes, just as the agency begins to implement the rule after its publication. Informed Water Choices, sponsored by the Ductile Iron Pipe Research Association (DIPRA), has recently commissioned paid articles in newspapers across the country urging local officials and water...