Lykins, a neighborhood in Kansas City’s northeast, is one of two where KC Water will begin inspecting water pipes this spring (Suzanne King/The Beacon).
An inventory of Kansas City’s water service lines hasn’t turned up any lead pipes yet, but that doesn’t mean the city is finished looking — or out of the woods.
KC Water’s initial investigation, which involved searching public records like building permits and other filings, found that almost three-quarters of the city’s 178,000 service lines are not lead. But the materials used for 24,827 lines remain unknown, and 22,951 are made of galvanized steel and classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as “requiring replacement.”…