DEP Notice from the City: Urgent Replacement of Lead Water Main

Hi All,
This is Brett from Harris Water Main & Sewer. Apologies for joining the conversation at the eleventh hour, but a friend suggested that I share some insights.
@Brownstone Home Inspection, I fully agree with everything you’ve mentioned. These discussions are exactly what we often deliberate behind closed doors. I’m happy to continue this conversation offline and delve deeper into the specifics.

Regarding determining whether a line is lead or copper, unfortunately, it’s far from a perfect science. We frequently encounter situations where a pipe appears to be lead from the inside, only to discover it was a repair done, possibly to expedite a property sale by a developer or due to an illegal repair by a previous owner to fix a leak. There are several other variables we consider to reach a professional opinion, but without excavating the street and sidewalk, no one can definitively confirm the pipe’s material.

Regarding city “fund upgrade” for lead water mains, there’s a lot to discuss that may not be suitable for this forum. I’m happy to discuss these details offline.

For the record, Harris Water is more than happy to conduct an analysis, gather all pertinent information available to licensed plumbers, and provide a detailed report on our findings regarding the composition of your pipe.

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Brownstone Home Inspection | 1 month ago

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@dudeonocean: sometimes when i see a copper main coming into the house, i tell the client it is copper here and that should be they changed the line out to main in the street but ultimately we do not know if somebody was playing some sort of game for some reason (i can think of a few reasons) where they changed it out into the yard but not to the road.

people do “weird” things in buildings which sometimes make sense when we listen to their reasoning but most of the time was being done to save money and those kinds of fixes often screw things up for everyone else who comes along later.

Brownstone Home Inspection | 1 month ago

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….look them in the eye and tell them rather than give out bad information.

cate, is there anyway they can put a system in that would allow us to edit what we write?