In the early 70s the city I used to live in replaced all their old wooden water lines with concrete/asbestos pipes. They are now digging up the asbestos lines and replacing them with plastic. I do not know what the eventual plumbing will look like once they find out how the plastic is killing them.

Ralph Kramden wannabe? You must either be my age or some sort of autistic savant to drag out that old chestnut.