Annual Report & Accounts 2017/18

NI Water Annual Report and Accounts 2017/18 26 Strategic Report Tackling lead pipes 2. The water leaving our water treatment works and in the distribution systems contains only trace amounts of lead. Over the PC15 period, we have committed to proactive replacement of over 11,000 lead communication pipes at consumer properties in addition to lead pipe replacement under water main rehabilitation and in response to sample failures. In the first three years of PC15 we have delivered 5,556 lead pipe replacements under the proactive replacement programme against a target of 5,532. However, where lead has been used for supply pipes between the water main and the kitchen tap or in domestic plumbing, there is a risk of non-compliance at the consumers’tap. So even with the removal of all lead pipes within our network there will be a risk to lead compliance from lead pipe remaining within customer properties. Find out more about reducing the risk of lead at: www.niwater. com/lead-pipes/ Lead communication pipes being replaced.