Guidance

Three Strategies to Reduce Costs: Purchasing Partnerships for Water Systems

This resource provides examples of purchasing partnerships for water systems.

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New Jersey removes lead pipes

Removing Service Lines in New Jersey

This article celebrates the kick-off of Passaic Valley’s LSLR program setting a goal to remove all LSLs in 2025.

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Technology pipes vector

Advances in Creating a Lead Service Line Inventory

ESRI’s Lead Service Line Inventory Solution configures ArcGIS to create and maintain lead service inventories, conduct material verifications in the field, manage replacement activities, monitor progress, and inform the community. ArcGIS platform is a common GIS tool leveraged in the water sector for maintaining assets.

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Technology pipes vector

A simple cloud-based GIS for municipalities and rural utilities

Diamond Maps is a cloud-based software that serves as a more economical option for smaller and rural utilities for asset management with a GIS tool.

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Template pipes

Planning and Developing a Service Line Inventory: Inventory Template

As part of its guidance for service line inventories, EPA developed an inventory template for water systems, states, and Tribes to use or adapt to create their own. Utilities should additionally check with particular State requirements.

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Guidance

Guidance for Developing and Maintaining a Service Line Inventory

EPA guidance to help water systems follow best practices when building and maintaining their service line inventories.

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Water pipe materials

Learn More: How to Identify Pipe Material

Louisville Water Company posted an educational video to demonstrate how to identify material types in customer’s homes.

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Tools & Guides Pipes 2

What’s Lurking in Your Lines? A Menacing Threat Could be on the Prowl

The Oshkosh water utility outreach materials have sample images for guiding customers on how to determine service line material. These materials are also provided in multiple languages.

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Technology pipes vector

ArcGIS Survey 123

ArcGIS Survey 123 is an ESRI product that ties directly to the service line inventory. It can be customized as an online portal for the water system’s website to capture survey information and photos from customers and inspectors. Staff can review the results before updating the inventory information.

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Technology pipes vector

Vyn for The Water Industry

Vyntelligence provides a platform that can be used to capture photos and videos from customers to verify service line materials on the private side.

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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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