lead in water

The plan is needed before the city can seek funding help through grants.

The city estimates it has 2,000 lead water service lines still in use.

The city is mainly looking at houses built before 1972, which is when it passed an ordinance to ban the installation of lead service lines.

Galesburg aldermen approved a contract with J.C. Dillon of Peoria for $1.7 million to do the first phase of a lead water service line replacement program.…