Infrastructure Upgrades and Lead Exposure: Do Cities Face Trade-Offs When Replacing Water Mains?
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Authors
Gazze, Ludovica
Heissel, Jennifer
Subjects
Children
Health
Infrastructure
Health
Infrastructure
Advisors
Date of Issue
2021
Date
2021
Publisher
Elsevier
Language
en_US
Abstract
Concerns about drinking water contamination through lead service lines may hinder resource-constrained municipalities from performing important infrastructure upgrades. Construction on water mains may shake the service lines and increase lead levels in drinking water. We estimate the effects of water main maintenance on drinking water and children’s blood levels exploiting over 2,500 water main replacements in Chicagoa city with almost 400,000 lead service linesand unique geocoded data. By comparing tests in homes at different distances from replaced mains before and after replacementwe find no evidence that water main replacement affects water or children’s lead levels.
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Article
Description
17 USC 105 interim-entered record; under temporary embargo.
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Department
Graduate School of Defense Management (GSDM)
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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NPS Report Number
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U.S. Government affiliation is unstated in article text.
Format
28 p.
Citation
Gazze, Ludovica, and Jennifer Heissel. "Infrastructure Upgrades and Lead Exposure: Do Cities Face Trade-Offs When Replacing Water Mains?." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 108, July 2021, 102472 (2021)