’15 years is appalling’: Regina residents renew call for faster lead pipe replacement
Global News
A petition has been sent to mailboxes in Cathedral, Heritage, Lakeview and beyond asking residents for their support in a campaign to shorten the lead pipe replacement timeline.
A group of concerned residents is hoping a newly-launched petition helps motivate the City of Regina to speed up its lead service connection replacement program.
The program currently has a 15-year timeline for completion, while the petition’s organizers would like to see that reduced down to five.
“Fifteen years is appalling,” said Regina resident and Get the Lead Out member Florence Stratton, adding the petition already has about 170 signatures.
“We’re hoping the petition will, first, help educate all of us about the issue and to put pressure on the city to speed up getting the lead out of our water,”
When the program was accelerated to 15 years from its original 30-year timeline last May, the city estimated there were about 3,600 city-owned lead service connections remaining.
A new estimate provided to Global News Tuesday suggests about 3,400 city-owned connections remain. By the city’s own admission, these connections “may contribute to elevated lead levels in affected residents’ drinking water”.
Stratton and her peers say their main concern is the potential negative health consequences for children.
According to Health Canada, “Infants and children are most sensitive to the harmful effects of lead because they are undergoing a period of rapid development and they absorb lead more easily and excrete it less efficiently than adults.”
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