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Lake County to replace single identified lead service line after state inventory
Summary
Public works staff told the committee an inventory found one lead service line; increased EPA monitoring has raised costs and staff recommended replacing the line at county expense, pending homeowner consent.
Lake County Public Works Director Austin McFarland told the Public Works and Transportation Committee on Oct. 8 that a year-old inventory of the county’s water service lines identified one lead service line and that staff recommends replacing it at county expense to meet state and federal monitoring requirements.
McFarland, the director for Lake County Public Works, said the presence of the lead service line triggered an expanded sampling regimen under Illinois and federal rules: instead of the agency’s usual 10 samples every three years, the utility must now collect 20 samples every six months. “At this rate, our costs…
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