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Cheap sewer pipe repairs can push toxic fumes into homes and schools – here's how to lower the risk

  • Written by Andrew J. Whelton, Professor of Civil, Environmental & Ecological Engineering, Director of the Healthy Plumbing Consortium and Center for Plumbing Safety, Purdue University
Cheap sewer pipe repairs can push toxic fumes into homes and schools – here's how to lower the riskWith many CIPP repairs, this isn't just steam.Andrew Whelton/Purdue University

Across the U.S., children and adults are increasingly exposed to harmful chemicals from a source few people are even aware of.

It begins on a street outside a home or school, where a worker in a manhole is repairing a sewer pipe. The contractor inserts a resin-soaked...

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