General Discussion

Turns out our old 1923 house is fed by a lead water pipe. I suspect any lead that was going to leach out either did so long ago or is so encrusted in mineral deposits as to be low/no risk so want to test the water vs. paying $1000s to replace the pipe and achieve nothing. (Yes, I know we will need to disclose on the lead pipe should we choose to sell). Going to local testing lab and they said they must by regulation now test all drinking water samples for e. coli as well. I do trust our local utility as it is deep well water fed and there has been no history of e. coli and I really don't want to pay to do what amounts to be repetitive testing but lab says there is no choice, they can't just test for lead. Clearly and up and coming issue.