Boston Water and Sewer Commission

Local municipalities in the metro Boston area who spoke with the Banner are largely unconcerned about slated cuts in federal funding to replace lead service pipes in Massachusetts.

Boston property owners will be able to have their lead water pipes replaced for free, thanks to federal funding, the Boston Water and Sewer Commission announced this month.

It isn’t often in a city the size and density of Boston that the opportunity presents itself to re-imagine — and indeed rebuild — more than four acres of publicly-owned land in the heart of the city. But that is exactly what the sprawling parking lot along Harrison Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, currently owned by the Boston Water and Sewer Commission, represents.