Residents receive letters warning of lead lines

As a result of the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to provide Americans clean drinking water, some Oelwein residents received letters over the weekend from Oelwein Municipal Water Works regarding unknown service line material that could potentially contain lead. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Lead and... read full story

"Through records and research, we confirmed about 2,600 of the 2,800 water accounts do not have lead service lines. In order to confirm the service line material we need to enter the dwellings and determine the type of pipe that feeds the home,"