Reduced atmospheric acid deposition has given rise to recovery from acidification–defined
as increasing pH, acid neutralization capacity (ANC), or alkalinity in surface waters. Strong …

The inner walls of the drinking water distribution system (DWDS) are expected to be clean to
ensure a safe quality of drinking water. Complex physical, chemical, and biological …

Following a pH reduction in their drinking water over a span of more than 20 years, the City
of Newark, New Jersey, has struggled with elevated lead (Pb) release from Pb service lines …

Estimating the risk of lead contamination of schools' drinking water at the State level is a
complex, important, and unexplored challenge. Variable water quality among water systems …

With lead service lines (LSLs) remaining for decades to come, scale analyses are critical to
helping limit lead exposure from drinking water. This laboratory has used an integrated suite …

Over 5000 public drinking water systems in the US are out of compliance with the Lead and
Copper Rule. Lead leaching from lead pipes is limited by the solubility of a naturally …

Lead contamination in drinking water can be caused by various types of lead: lead ions,
soluble lead complexes, and lead particulates. Traditional detection methods such as …

A point-of-use (POU) filter program helped the City of Newark, NJ, remove lead from the
city's drinking water as a temporary measure while corrosion-control treatment was applied …

Abstract Communities across the United States and particularly in the Midwest continue to
grapple with the complications associated with aging infrastructure. This includes the …

The identification and characterization of lead-bearing and associated minerals in scales on
lead pipes are essential to understanding and predicting the mobilization of lead into …