Ya ever heard the expression...Lead pipe cinch? There are still some places with lead pipes. Heck I know of a spring that is still in use that has a lead pipe for the overflow...that everybody got their spring water from. Frogs lived in the overflow too. Big ol' green ones!!
When I moved out here I gave a friend about a ton (literally) of lead and there was quite a bit of lead pipe in it. My Father in Law took it out of a house the year he retired from plumbing. 1979. Wish I coulda brung it with me.