Duke Energy of Ohio, which serves Cincinnati, had the best track record in the country, replacing 80 percent of its cast -
iron pipes through an aggressive program approved by the Public Utility Commission of Ohio in 2001.
Not exact matches
Edwards explored this concept
through the case studies of St. Joseph, Louisiana, where efforts to fix infrastructure that transported brown water saturated with
iron, manganese, and lead were hindered by local corruption; Washington, D.C., where a covered - up water crisis led to increased miscarriage risks, fetal deaths, and lead poisoning in thousands of children; and Flint, Michigan, where a switch to a new water source without adding the anticorrosive agent orthophosphate to the water to protect
pipes caused significant lead poisoning, an outbreak of the Legionella bacteria causing twelve deaths, and a breakdown of the water infrastructure.
After peering
through the ground floor's front and side windows, I went inside to look closely at Judd's «Untitled» floor piece with
iron pipe, five stainless - steel - and Plexiglas boxes affixed to a the main wall, and Carl Andre's stacked piece of eight bricks, «Manifest Destiny.»
Our house has 80 year old cast
iron radiators and
pipes, and the crap in it would gum this up in a day, so we have set it up as a closed loop, running it
through the heat exchanger, middle suitcase.
The
iron sewer
pipe in the crawlspace underneath the house led outside to a larger clay
pipe leading to the curb... and the beautiful, large pine tree in front of the house had insinuated its roots
through the seams in the
pipe... and there was barely a finger's width of space left in that
pipe.