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- 19 de Ene, 2023
The pipes themselves were fine (if old), the water was the problem. If you have hard water with a lot of carbonates like the Great Lakes, they will react with the outer layer of the pipe and form a coating that blocks lead from leaching out into the water.It would be interesting to check how many of his supporters were alive back when there was lead in the paint and in gasoline. Also, how many of them are from Flint, Michigan & other places where the pipes were of subpar quality and they drank lead with the water...
However, if your water source is acidic due to pollution (like the Flint River), that acid dissolves the carbonate coating which allows lead to get into the water in large amounts.
Lead is very cheap and very easy to shape including into ones impractical or impossible for many other pipe materials. That's why it was preferred for service line pipes in decades past but now it's better to replace them whenever possible due to the risk of lead contamination.