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Start a conversation: Ask the right questions to make key program decision

A guide for local elected officials to ask key questions when starting a LSLR program.

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Learning through Collaboration: Great Lakes Lead Pipes Partnership

The Great Lakes Lead Pipes Partnership, a first-of-its-kind mayor-led partnership designed to create shared learnings and replicate successes.

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Spotlight: A Conversation with a Mayor Spurs Action

At Mayor Baraka’s urging, the Newark City Council passed two ordinances to make the full-scale project possible.

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Lessons from Four Illinois Mayors Interviews

We interviewed mayors and utility staff from four Illinois communities who are working to comply with the Illinois state mandate to replace lead service lines.

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Milwaukee is one of the few cities in the country with a prioritization plan to ensure neighborhoods likely to suffer the most severe impacts from lead poisoning get their pipes replaced first. In consultation with a community-based group, Coalition for Lead Emergency (COLE), and following a public engagement process, Milwaukee included in an ordinance three indicators to prioritize where LSLs will be removed first:

  1. The area deprivation index (ADI), which is a compilation of social determinants of health
  2. The percentage of children found to have elevated lead levels in their blood when tested for lead poisoning
  3. The density of lead service lines in the neighborhood.

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