I saw an article in the Boston paper several years ago. They had a water
leak in one of the older neighborhoods. A few hundred people were without
water. They dug up the pavement, found that the pipe was made of wood. A lo=
g
with a hole bored through it. They carefully replaced it, presumably not
with a log.
The next wave of technology, after logs, was lead pipe. Not lead soldered,
solid lead pipe. It didn't rust, was slightly flexible, easy to join.
If there are 200 year old logs carrying water, how many lead pipes, and how
many more lead soldered pipes are still out there & in use?
There's a theory that as long as enough water is flowing through the pipes
the amount of lead that leaches out is small. But, a few years ago they
built a facility near me to remove lead from the water feeding our area.
--MikeW
On 4/7/06, M. McCandless  wrote:
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"Life is just one damned thing after another."
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Water alone does not leech much lead at all.  Hot water does, and acidic 
substances do, but water alone is not that much of a threat.  Probably less 
than the fluoride they add to the drinking water.
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