A construction worker works on dislodging an old lead line in the basement of a house before his colleague pulls it out using an excavator. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror This story is part of CT ...
Lead plumbing was banned in the United States in 1986, but new data assembled by Connecticut’s water utilities show there may still be thousands of lead pipes carrying water into homes, apartments and ...
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. When Jarvis Parker was looking to buy a house in Waterbury in late 2019, he had several basic criteria. He wanted to avoid properties ...