Casper needs resident, businesses to help find lead water pipes - Oil City News

Casper needs residents, businesses to help find lead water pipes - Casper, WY Oil City News

CASPER, Wyo. — The City of Casper wants to find any existing lead water pipes on residents’ properties and inform them how to reduce their danger, according to a press release Tuesday.

“Besides being the right thing to do for the health of all in our community, the Environmental Protection Agency also has requested we do this water service line inventory,” Casper Chief Operating Officer Tom Brauer said. “This is a big undertaking, and we hope everyone will want to know whether or not they have lead pipes delivering their drinking water.”

Verifying the pipe material coming into every water meter in homes and businesses is the only way to know.

“The best way to accomplish this is for property owners to locate their water meter; not the one in the alley, or outside the building, but the one usually downstairs or in the crawl space and report their findings with our tools, and testing methods that work,” Brauer said.

The city has built an information website and reporting tool at ArcGIS StoryMaps.

None of the pipelines that the city uses from the water main line under the street to properties are made of lead.

The city has identified these steps to report your property’s water pipe material:

1. If you know the materials your water pipe is made of, use the reporting tool to report them.
2. If you would like to learn the pipe materials that are used in delivering water to your home, the reporting tool has pictures of each pipe material.
3. Use a testing method found in the reporting tool’s testing section to test the pipe material and then report your findings for submission.
4. If you need help to identify the pipe material servicing your property, call 307-235-8360.