Getting the lead out
By JAMES C. FALCON
james@nordaknorth.com
GARRISON — A resolution authorizing the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality for assistance in performing an inventory of the city’s lead service lines was passed by the Garrison City Council at their meeting Monday evening.
As part of the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions, cities are required by the DEQ to identify and replace all lead pipes in their public water systems.
According to Garrison water treatment plant supervisor Greg Boucher, “the EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pushing it.”
In December 2021, the EPA announced that the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions would go into effect “to support development of actions to reduce lead in drinking water,” the state’s DEQ website stated.
