{"id":15316,"date":"2023-07-10T03:09:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T08:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=15316"},"modified":"2023-07-10T03:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T08:09:11","slug":"decades-after-the-dangers-of-lead-became-clear-some-cities-are-leaving-lead-pipe-in-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=15316","title":{"rendered":"Decades after the dangers of lead became clear, some cities are leaving lead pipe in the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) \u2014 Prandy Tavarez and his wife were expecting a baby when they bought a four-bedroom house in a well-kept neighborhood of century-old homes here. They got to work making it theirs, ripping off wallpaper, upgrading the electrical and replacing windows coated in paint that contained lead, a potent neurotoxin that can damage brain development in children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That wasn\u2019t the only lead. The pipe carrying water to their home was made of it, too. Providence\u2019s tap water had had dangerous lead levels for years. So it wasn\u2019t surprising in 2008 when a road crew came through and dug up the street to take out the pipe. Then they left part of it in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/toxic-lead-pipes-epa-providence-health-bc793dea64ab59d26e27620d3c2338c9\">apnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) \u2014 Prandy Tavarez and his wife were expecting a baby when they bought a four-bedroom house in a well-kept neighborhood of century-old homes here. They got to work making it theirs, ripping off wallpaper, upgrading the electrical and replacing windows coated in paint that contained lead, a potent neurotoxin that can damage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[9666,9665,9667],"class_list":["post-15316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-and-decades-later","tag-in-some-cities","tag-lead-pipes-are-left-in-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15318,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15316\/revisions\/15318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}