Congressman Dan Kildee has announced new bipartisan legislation designed to protect families from lead in drinking water. The Get the Lead out of Assisted Housing Act would help protect families living in federally assisted housing from lead exposure by requiring the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to inspect for lead service lines.
“It would require us to inventory where those lead lines are to determine exactly how expansive it is beyond that, and then fix the problem,” Kildee said. “It’s a big enough problem that it will take a lot of money to fix it.”
Kildee says there’s no safe level of lead and the Flint water crisis taught us that we can’t take the safety of our drinking water for granted. His bill would also create a grant program for local and state governments to address lead contamination and mandate that homes found to have lead paint be checked for lead in water.
