Le Devoir maps probable lead pipes
Le Devoir, saying the city’s own maps are not reliable, has produced a map showing the areas of town it claims are shows most likely to have lead water pipes.
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Tim 13:41 on 2019-10-31 Permalink
Kate, I find your description that Le Devoir is making a “claim” to be highly misleading. The map is not making claims at all. Did you try it out?
The map shows the results of multiple water tests that were conducted by the city. The map is commendable for putting this hard data in front of people in an easy to understand way so that people can make their own judgments.
Kate 14:56 on 2019-10-31 Permalink
Granted.
Alex L 15:50 on 2019-10-31 Permalink
I live in the dark red sector. The city has given a contract to change the pipes in front of our houses and they’ve been excavating for a few days. The company doing the repairs says it won’t do repairs on the private section of the pipes, and won’t let anyone else enter the construction site until they’re finished, so I can’t contract anyone else for the time being. And they’ve told me they still have weeks to go, it could start freezing and I could have to wait until next year.
So I wonder, once they’ve changed the public part of the pipes, are we supposed to buy bottled water until we can re-excavate everything and change our section? We will soon have a newborn little being and that is the given recommendation by the DSP in Montreal…
Michael Black 16:15 on 2019-10-31 Permalink
When they redid our street two years ago, the first thing they did was dig up lawns to access that length of pioe. And even before any digging, they pointed out that this was the time to change that length of pipe, if it needed it.
It all took so long, but some of that was because they planned and allowed for things like that bit of pipe. They also didn’t want a situation where the new street had to be dug up because someone (like Hydro) forgot they needed to do something. And some of the extra time was to mimimize the impact, digging up places in the street, then temporarily covering the holes. So it took four months, but the street was fully closed for about 2 or 3 days.
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Meezly 12:54 on 2019-11-01 Permalink
@Alex L – Instead of buying bottled water (which in most cases is treated tap water), I think it would be more practical to invest in a water filter that is certified NSF/ANSI Standard 42 and 53.