Hate to break you the bad news folks, but I use to work for a big municipality and was part of the water and sewer crew. I was the backhoe man. but many of times had to get into the hole and help with repairs. Being a farm boy I really got a wake up call when it came to city water. the minute a 8 or 10 inch water main was opened up I could smell the clorine water, it was terrible. The rest of the crew all lived in the city and was use to it. Now getting onto the lead, I helped remove and replace a lot of old fire hydrants and that was the big shocker. the amount of lead used to joint the pipes together was unbelievable. just like the small copper pipes in older homes, (probably 90 percent of the houses in the world) the municipalities used tonnes not pounds of lead to joint the old cast pipes from the water tower to the fire hydrants to the service pipes that feed every house, restaruant and business. they are slowly replacing them with plastic, but its millions and millions of dollars to do. and is the plastic any safer?? the lead has always been there but different chlorines and florides that the cities mix into the water has rumours that its loosening and reacting with the lead and causing it to flow more into the water. and yes there is lots of rust in the big 8 and 10 inch pipes that no one ever gets to see as well You have to remember that alot of these water mains were put in the 1940s or earlier thats why you will hear about the cities doing testing of lead in your house water. its not ONLY because of the small amount of lead that was used to join the pipes in the house but because of the huge amount of lead used to solder the joints of these old water mains. Just my two cents worth.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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