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Officials say Chicago’s average replacement cost is more than six times the EPA estimate, driven in part by labor costs and a huge inventory of lead lines.
* WBEZ…
No city dealing with a lot of lead pipes spends as much as Chicago does to replace them.
With more than 400,000 lead water service lines, Chicago has the largest known inventory of lead pipes of any city in the country. Officials say replacing each one costs, on average, about $31,000 — more than six [...]