lead pipes
Old water conduits
Lead pipes are tubes made from lead metal, historically used for plumbing before health risks were understood.
Lead leaches into water, causing poisoning—a fact that has made lead pipes a major public health concern and the subject of infrastructure replacement efforts.
The city is replacing lead pipes in older neighborhoods.
In the board game Clue, the lead pipe is one of the murder weapons.
- Flint water crisisMunicipal lead contamination disaster
- plumbingWater and waste infrastructure
- Roman aqueductsAncient elevated water channels
- Roman EmpireAncient state from Augustus onward
- water distributionDelivering potable liquid broadly
remediation · Pb · soldering · corrosion · water quality · neurotoxicity · toxic exposure · EPA standards · home inspection · ancient engineering · contamination · archeology · malleability · municipal codes · sewer · fittings · infrastructure · joints
- infrastructure failuresbridge collapse, potholes, dam breach, power outage, water main breaks
- Tap Watertap water, drinking fountains, faucet, faucets, water supply
- LeadPb, galena, leaded gasoline
- plumbingpipes, valves, fittings, faucets, drains
- Roman hygieneaqueducts, public baths, bathhouses, sewers, latrines
- toxic metalsarsenic, cadmium, chromium, nickel, mercury poisoning
lead pipescopper tubing
Hollow metallic conduit material
copper pipes · PVC pipes · plastic pipes · cast iron pipes · galvanized pipes