When was your drinking water infrastructure installed?

Many outdoor properties are over 60 years old, and often times, their drinking water distribution system is the original one.

If yours is an old infrastructure, here are some questions you might have with your management team, board, owners, and community providers. Have parts or all of the system been updated recently? Are there definitive plans to update it in the future? Or, for a public system, what are their plans to upgrade the infrastructure?

Below are excerpts from recent EPA press release.

June 4, 2013. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released results of a survey showing that $384 billion in improvements are needed for the nation’s drinking water infrastructure through 2030 for systems to continue providing safe drinking water to 297 million Americans.

EPA’s fifth Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment identifies investments needed over the next 20 years for thousands of miles of pipes and thousands of treatment plants, storage tanks and water distribution systems, which are all vital to public health and the economy. The national total of $384 billion includes the needs of 73,400 water systems across the country, as well as American Indian and Alaska Native Village water systems.

For the full press release see http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/F72C2FDC7D61F92085257B800057655F