Florida has more than 1.1 MILLION lead pipes carrying water into homes - the most in the US:

[windriverrange]

FL has 1.1M lead pipes carrying water into homes - the most in the US

Florida has the most lead water pipes in the US with an estimated 1.16million with the Environmental Protection Authority saying even low exposures could be harmful to children.

www.dailymail.co.uk

And the hit pieces for Florida, i.e. DeSantis are starting. If you look at the chart though New York, Illinois, Ohio & Pennsylvania are all also in the same category. Probably as an aggregate population more than Florida.
"Erik Olson, a health and food expert at the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council, said the EPA was 'trying to do the right thing' by using its survey to direct lead pipe funds to states that need it most. But he called Florida's figure 'a big surprise.' Olson said the state told his group in 2021 that it doesn't track lead service lines. The NRDC's estimate for the state was about 200,000.

Olson said the Florida number is puzzling because lead pipes were most frequently installed in the decades before Florida's population rapidly grew.

'We look forward to hearing an explanation,' Olson said.

The EPA said it extrapolated from water providers' responses to come up with the state-level estimates. The location of many lead pipes are still unknown and the EPA said states like Florida had a lot of water lines that were either made of an unknown material or lead."


Wonder who Erik Olson & The Natural Resources Defense Council is? Any guesses? Good thing you ask.

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[2012Bearcat]

DeSantis had all the pipes replaced with lead to harm minorities.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

Detroit?

 

[JimmyBob]

Damn, I melted lead and made my own sinkers when I was a kid; sure didn't hurt me.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

Damn, I melted lead and made my own sinkers when I was a kid; sure didn't hurt me.

Brother it's a foolish fickle world we live in today. Now go wash yer hands. 😉

 

[GunsOfFrankEaton]

Damn, I melted lead and made my own sinkers when I was a kid; sure didn't hurt me.

Me and my kid brother use to pick up lead wheel balancers off the roads. We then took them home and melted the lead in spoons over mom's gas kitchen stove. Once the lead melted, we dipped the spoon in water and had nice little oval shaped sinkers for fishing. It made that burning smell in the kitchen and our mother became torqued! On top of that, she was always afraid we'd burn ourselves. But we never did.

 

[JimmyBob]

Me and my kid brother use to pick up lead wheel balancers off the roads. We then took them home and melted the lead in spoons over mom's gas kitchen stove. Once the lead melted, we dipped the spoon in water and had nice little oval shaped sinkers for fishing. It made that burning smell in the kitchen and our mother became torqued! On top of that, she was always afraid we'd burn ourselves. But we never did.

I had a sinker mold that made several weights up to 1 oz.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

I swam and drank creek water.

 

[davidallen]

I understand some of you much better now. Thanks for sharing.

 

[OUSOONER67]

I understand some of you much better now. Thanks for sharing.

You know you had frosted lead paint chips cereal for breakfast everyday. Don't be smug. 🤣

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

I understand some of you much better now. Thanks for sharing.

Sunlight would help.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

I understand some of you much better now. Thanks for sharing.

Gate code.

 

[wyomingosualum]

Me and my kid brother use to pick up lead wheel balancers off the roads. We then took them home and melted the lead in spoons over mom's gas kitchen stove. Once the lead melted, we dipped the spoon in water and had nice little oval shaped sinkers for fishing. It made that burning smell in the kitchen and our mother became torqued! On top of that, she was always afraid we'd burn ourselves. But we never did.

Lead AND a gas stove? We demand you jump off a cliff in the name of environmental justice.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

Lead AND a gas stove? We demand you jump off a cliff in the name of environmental justice.

Joe would rather children be "confused".

 

[OUSOONER67]

Gate code.

Dave don't wanna play tonight. Is this the equivalent of when June tells Ward he has been a little hard on the Beaver lately. 🤣

 

[22LR]

I understand some of you much better now. Thanks for sharing.

The brass plumbing fixtures used throughout your house, even your kitchen faucet, contain lead.

 

[aix_xpert]

1.1 Million pipes? Shouldnt that be 'feet of pipe'? Or should it be a count of the impacted population? This article feels like a trick of the statistician. For example: does this mean a single pipe running to an apartment housing 200 families counts the same as a single pipe running to an individual's home and thus impact 4 people? Would that make a 200 house neighborhood count 200x times more than a NY apartment housing the same number of people? I'm sorry, but we've long since proven that the media (both sides) will take stats and twist them in whatever manner necessary to sell the desired narrative.

 

[davidallen]

The brass plumbing fixtures used throughout your house, even your kitchen faucet, contain lead.

Uh huh.

 

[2012Bearcat]

I swam and drank creek water.

We go on a dove hunt every year down at a friends ranch in west Texas on opening weekend. Hunt in the morning, eat lunch and then spend the early afternoon in one of his stock tanks to escape the heat. Might or might not have a few adult beverages. Redneck Riviera.

 

[JimmyBob]

I swam and drank creek water.

And pond water.

 

[CowboyJD]

Not interested in getting political, but.....this might explain the "Florida Man" phenomenon.

 

[soonerinlOUisiana]

Oh yeah? F’ck all of you’s. We used to leave our umbrellas and beach chairs out on the beach overnight in PCB. Wouldn’t flatten our sand castles at the end of the day either. No telling how many turtles we killed!!!!

 

[Syskatine]

The homeowner's premiums in Florida are pretty wild, from what I hear. Zero input or action from DeSantos in response.

Anyone in Florida confirm or deny?

 

[22LR]

The homeowner's premiums in Florida are pretty wild, from what I hear. Zero input or action from DeSantos in response.

Anyone in Florida confirm or deny?

I’m not a Democrat, but I’ll lie anyway.

I live in Clearwater Beach. Deny.

 

[Medic007]

Uh huh.

Wait, you aren't an expert on brass too? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lead is added to brass to make it easier to machine and to reduce corrosion. The federal limit to call a brass fitting "lead free" is now 0.25% since 2011. Prior to that the limit was 8%. I used to machine brass, aluminum alloys, steel, iron (mainly routing) and manganese bronze. There's literally no service brass in existence that doesn't contain lead.

 

[Syskatine]

I’m not a Democrat, but I’ll lie anyway.

I live in Clearwater Beach. Deny.

All I've seen are social media posts of some really exorbitant premiums. Not going on with you and around you, huh?

 

[davidallen]

Wait, you aren't an expert on brass too? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lead is added to brass to make it easier to machine and to reduce corrosion. The federal limit to call a brass fitting "lead free" is now 0.25% since 2011. Prior to that the limit was 8%. I used to machine brass, aluminum alloys, steel, iron (mainly routing) and manganese bronze. There's literally no service brass in existence that doesn't contain lead.

Don't forget about the solder. Not everyone is using those fancy compression joints yet.

 

[Medic007]

Don't forget about the solder. Not everyone is using those fancy compression joints yet.

Most modern lead free plumbing solder doesn't contain any lead. It's mostly tin/copper. If you're using leaded solder or electric solder for your plumbing, you're doing it wrong.

 

[davidallen]

Most modern lead free plumbing solder doesn't contain any lead. It's mostly tin/copper. If you're using leaded solder or electric solder for your plumbing, you're doing it wrong.

"Doing it wrong" is my mantra with plumbing. About to get wet with pex this weekend. Will see how that goes.

 

[Medic007]

"Doing it wrong" is my mantra with plumbing. About to get wet with pex this weekend. Will see how that goes.

In my no formal plumbing training experience, pex is the way to go. If you're using a manifold, make sure the valves have a metal stem to use to turn on and off. The plastic ones are shit.

 

[wyomingosualum]

Lead pipes have always been associated with death. Ask Colonel Mustard. In the kitchen.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

Lead pipes have always been associated with death. Ask Colonel Mustard. In the kitchen.

Ask them Detroit kooks. 😁

 

[davidallen]

 

[Medic007]

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Federal disaster aid is socialism? Climate change causes hurricanes? I've got a few questions.

To be honest, I'd rather a politician ask for federal aid for a natural disaster than ask for federal aid for disasters their dumbass policies have caused. Just sayin.

 

[JimmyBob]

I had a sinker mold that made several weights up to 1 oz.

I totally forgot about my bottle of Mercury that I used to polish coins.

 

[davidallen]

Federal disaster aid is socialism? Climate change causes hurricanes? I've got a few questions.

To be honest, I'd rather a politician ask for federal aid for a natural disaster than ask for federal aid for disasters their dumbass policies have caused. Just sayin.

I'm guessing you need to get in line. So many questions for the con-servatives.

 

[Medic007]

I'm guessing you need to get in line. So many questions for the con-servatives.

Huh? Drunk already?