The long road to replacing one Chicago home’s lead service pipes
Chicago has nearly 390,000 lead pipes. Only a few hundred have been replaced in the last two years.
After months of back-and-forth between her family and the city, the lead pipe service lines in front of Gina Ramirez’s mother’s homes on the Southeast Side are finally on their way to being replaced.
Reset talks to the environmentalist about what this means for her family, and gets the latest on the citywide plan.
GUESTS: Gina Ramirez, Midwest outreach manager at Natural Resources Defense Council Brett Chase, environmental reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times
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The long road to replacing one Chicago home’s lead service pipes
Chicago has nearly 390,000 lead pipes. Only a few hundred have been replaced in the last two years.
After months of back-and-forth between her family and the city, the lead pipe service lines in front of Gina Ramirez’s mother’s homes on the Southeast Side are finally on their way to being replaced.
Reset talks to the environmentalist about what this means for her family, and gets the latest on the citywide plan.
GUESTS: Gina Ramirez, Midwest outreach manager at Natural Resources Defense Council Brett Chase, environmental reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times