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There used to be a bunch of Spanish announce tables but people kept throwing each other through them

you are right, but it's just their guess for most of the services as they did not track the owner-side material until a few years ago. The way they are doing it is if the whole street was replaced during a water main replacement or relining then it's not likely the other side is copper, if the whole street was not replaced then it's likely the owner asked for a service line replacement and in that case, the owner side would be copper if the public side is copper since it's required that the owner replace their side before PW replaces the public side, although there are rare instances where it didn't happen. So if you want to be certain get a test done.

Came here to suggest this. I've bought several items from her, never been disappointed.

If this is your first time being away for an extended period of time, it’s always a good idea to let the faucet run for a few seconds before consuming what comes out.

Sometimes the water can become stagnant and some leeching from the pipes can occur.

As for the quality of Providence Water, we have without a doubt some of the best water in this country, second only to Portland, ME on a large system.

So you’re perfectly safe drinking it.

The meetup group mentioned below was great when I went a few years ago. Folks at lots of different levels. Friendly group.

The Olneyville Neighborhood Association has done an intercambio in the past for folks looking to learn either Spanish or English (and K'iche, too!). It was on Zoom due to Covid when I did it, which made it somewhat awkward, but it's the best formal way I've found to practice with native Spanish speakers. It might be a bit hard to hang if you're not conversational yet, though.

I was under the impression that it displays owner side lead? Like, I know they replaced the lead lines on my street, but we still have lead in my house, and that’s reflected on this map.

¿Donde esta la biblioteca?

Yes! I can imagine a Spanish language learner having problems understanding various dialects. I fluently speak a dialect of Mexican Spanish*but often find myself having some trouble understand some Carribean Spanish speakers. And ditto some Spanish speakers from Spain.

*I say a dialect of Mexican Spanish and not Mexican Spanish. There is no single Mexican Spanish. There exists regional variation despite common characteristics.

I do not drink tap water. For some of the contaminants in providence water britta is not enough. If it is in your budget Big Berkey is the most reasonable filter for providence tap water. However, britta is meant to filter lead, arsenic maybe and other metals so it is better than nothing.

There still is. See my comment reply above

Folks from the class (both current and former students) along with some local hispanohiblantes also get together twice a month on weekends at either Madrid or Wildflour to chat in Spanish. That group posts in the Meetup app

Checkout this Meetup with Providence Practicing Spanish: https://meetu.ps/e/LLhsw/KZPXs/i

I know for a fact our entire street (albeit a small one) has all turned over their lines since we’ve lived here and the city replaced the mains they lead to. I’m just suggesting ask the owner / landlord.

That's not a guarantee, pw prior to the last few years only kept records of the city side pipe material. So the map saying there is a copper service is not a guarantee that the owner side is also copper. The replacement rate of the owner side before flint was very low, so on your street that shows all copper it's likely most are actually still partially lead.

I’ll def check it out! I used to go to cable car all the time when I used to live here years ago, was so sad to see it gone

That's not correct, the service line has a private side and city side. It changes at the curb stop which is in the side walk. When they replace a water main or do what is called a clean and line, they will also replace all the lead lines on the street but only the city side. I believe now though they are replacing both sides when they are doing other water main work.

That's only for the city side though. Before flint the percentage of owners that had their private side of the service replaced was very low. So better to get it tested to know for sure.

Then that should be fine if you want converse with that group, but if you go to Spain with what you learned be prepared for some misunderstandings.

While I never sent myself to Spain, based on videos I have watched over there it did take me a little time to adjust to how they spoke because I'm so used to hearing people from Latin America speak Spanish vs any actual Spaniards.

There used to me a group on Meetup.com.

The elevated lead levels is because they used to only replace the city side of the water pipe, leaving it up to the owner to choose to replace the other side or not. That's why that map is unfortunately very inaccurate. You could have a city side copper service but the owner side is still lead, before flint the percentage of owners that opted to replace thier side was very low. I believe now they do replace both sides but not 100% on that. But if both sides are replaced then the elevated levels is not something that will happen.

Especially if you have children or have children that visit your home it's best to get an actual water test to determine if you have lead pipes regardless of the age of your home and not rely on that map, unless the whole area is newer like parts of west Cranston, since the developments were built after the use of lead lines were discontinued. I don't think the federal regulations reflect the newer science, but there is no longer a safe allowable level of lead for kids, it needs to be zero.

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From my experience with Duolingo as well the Spanish lessons offered to Americans are Mexican/Latin American Spanish, mainly.

Same with me.

participating in the process for one , donating to whichever candidate aligns with my views however none this past election. Hence why I say throw someone in there for face value. There was an Asian girl who ran for city council in November I forget her name, why not put her on a special seat in the name of diversity hire.