The replaced water pipes affected about 17,000 households, and the government originally planned to have them gradually replaced within 10 years.
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/10/01
By: Teng Pei-ju, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – As Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) held up the city’s last
Photo courtesy of Ko Wen-je (Link: https://goo.gl/eASdPe)
lead pipe and handed a new tube made of stainless steel to a worker to be installed under a narrow lane in the Da-an District, the replacement project of the capital’s lead water pipelines was declared complete 15 months ahead of schedule.
The replaced water pipes in this project affected about 17,000 households, and the government originally planned to have them gradually replaced within 10 years, according to the city’s Water Department. However, concern about lead pipelines possibly contaminating the water they carried spread across the country in 2015.
With an additional budget of NT$420 million, the Water Department rescheduled the replacement project to be completed within three years, and eventually, the project was accomplished 15 months before the rescheduled due date. [FULL STORY]
