{"id":350154,"date":"2026-09-18T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350154\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:59:11","slug":"news-12-bronx-more-than-130m-awarded-to-replace-lead-service-lines-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350154\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | More Than 130m Awarded To Replace Lead Service Lines In New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that more than $130 million in state aid will help get lead pipes out of local drinking water systems.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The funding will identify and replace lead service lines across communities in New York.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It is a part of the state\u2019s Lead Infrastructure Forgiveness and Transformation (LIFT) program, which aims to help pay for projects protecting drinking water without overburdening taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say the projects will safeguard and improve public health in historically underserved areas.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cOur communities shouldn\u2019t have to choose between protecting their drinking water and taking on crushing debt,\u201d Hochul said in a press release. \u201cEvery family deserves clean, safe drinking water at a cost they can afford, and these grants will help us make that goal a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that more than $130 million in state aid will help get lead pipes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-350154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}