(5 Mar 2016) Crews on Friday dug up a lead water pipe and replaced it with a copper one at a Flint, Mich. home where an expectant couple lives.
It marked the first of such residential lead pipe removals that are a part of Mayor Karen Weaver's Fast Start initiative designed to replace all the lead service lines in a city that's been dealing with a contaminated water crisis.
Weaver told reporters outside Barry Richardson II's home that she was "almost speechless" at the prospect of finally beginning to rid the city of lead service lines.
Richardson lives in the home with his pregnant fiancée.
He later thanked the mayor and said he will no longer "have to worry about the lead poisoning" his water.
Lead leaching from aging pipes in Flint has resulted in elevated lead levels in some children's bloodstreams.
The problems began after the city switched its water supply from Detroit's system to the Flint River in 2014 to save money.
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