Denver Water began addressing lead in drinking water long before the crisis in Flint hit the news in late 2015.
Today the water utility, Colorado’s oldest and largest, is four years into an initiative to remove lead service lines from homes throughout its service territory, which includes some 1.5 million people, about half in the city and county of Denver and half in surrounding suburbs. Denver Water was the first utility in the nation to win U.S. EPA approval for a program to permanently address lead exposure in drinking water by replacing all lead service lines.The Lead Reduction Program aims to
