A Kentucky Utility Completes a Multidecade Effort to Remove a Potentially Serious Health Hazard From the Water System

Louisville Water joins an elite group of utilities that have removed all lead drinking water services on the public side of the meter. Now those on the homeowner side are the target.

A Kentucky Utility Completes a Multidecade Effort to Remove a Potentially Serious Health Hazard From the Water System

Louisville Water has systematically replaced all lead water services on the utility side of the meters.

Lead drinking water services became front-page news after widespread lead poisoning was discovered in Flint, Michigan.

Some water utilities had been tackling lead services aggressively long before the trouble in Flint surfaced in 2016. One of them is the Louisville (Kentucky)...

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