The letters are part of an EPA mandate where all municipalities had to inform residents if they have a lead service line or if it is unknown.
OHIO, USA —
Home and business owners throughout the area may have received a letter about replacements for lead water service lines.
This is all part of a mandate from the Environmental Protection Agency for municipalities to identify where lead service lines are and prepare to remove them.
This is a nationwide mandate and each municipality has to first identify homes and businesses that may have lead service lines, which are mainly buildings built prior to 1989.
“What we do is we look through our records and if we have a record that tells us clearly what that material is, whether it’s lead or copper or what have you, we put that in one pile,” Matt Choma, the director and commissioner of public utilities for the city of Perrysburg said.
The other group of letters r…