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tencats

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16. Downtown Chicago water pipe Nov 2014

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:29 PM

Feb 2016

Throughout 2014 and continuing yet the City of Chicago is doing extensive replacement of the main water supply lines. This is a pic that is typical of how the old pipe appears when pulled out of the trenches. Seen worse and some better. I think that in Chicago the water quality in way better than many other areas I visited. Near by municipalities outside Chicago Cook county can have terrible water quality.

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In front is an ACTUAL water pipe from Flint. In the back are what they should look like. [View all] kpete Feb 2016 OP

It is quite nauseating looking and to think that people are still taking baths - much less patricia92243 Feb 2016 #1

Probably the same 1939 Feb 2016 #2

A friend of mine is a civil engineer in charge of Ann Arbor water supply... phantom power Feb 2016 #3

Yeah. I was surprized to see lead pipes in a building I was doing a project on in Chicago. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2016 #5

gross! oldandhappy Feb 2016 #4

OMGOSH......ugh, AND the Governor should fry........ eom a kennedy Feb 2016 #6

Just an FYI Crepuscular Feb 2016 #7

How dare you...... A HERETIC I AM Feb 2016 #13

LoL Crepuscular Feb 2016 #14

Looks ok to me pediatricmedic Feb 2016 #8

BS. The one in back has plastic over it and is brand new. yellowcanine Feb 2016 #9

LOL. Everyone complaining in this thread is suddenly an expert at plumbing. Rex Feb 2016 #10

Although the Republicans only came into the picture a couple of years ago 1939 Feb 2016 #12

It isn't mentioned because Flint was controlled by Democrats for decades pediatricmedic Feb 2016 #17

That's "tuberculation" which is not considered to be a health hazard. Nye Bevan Feb 2016 #11

In general, used pipes are nasty looking things. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2016 #15

Downtown Chicago water pipe Nov 2014 tencats Feb 2016 #16