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Drinking Water Assistance Fund (DWAF) – Program Year 2025 Draft Program Management Plan

Ohio’s SRF program offers 40 year loans with 0% interest rates to state-defined disadvantaged communities (p. 46).

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Community Technical, Managerial, and Financial (TMF) Support for Lead Line Replacement Grant

The TMF program’s goal is to better position communities to take advantage of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) DWSRF dollars for lead line replacement, which are available through Fiscal Year 2027.

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H2Ohio –Lead Service Line Assessment & Replacement

H2Ohio – Lead Service Line Assessment & Replacement

Ohio EPA funds lead pipe replacement in communities and daycare centers, as well as mapping efforts to identify these hazardous lines.

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Minnesota statute requires state funding to cover private-side LSLR

Minnesota’s Lead Service Line Replacement Grant Program requires grant money be used to cover private-side replacements. Minn. Stat. 446A.077 §4(b).

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Guidance

Identifying Funding Sources for Lead Service Line Replacement

This webpage features resources providing guidance on federal and funding sources for lead service line replacement and laws related to this funding.

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Indiana makes customer-side LSLR eligible for infrastructure improvements

In 2017, Indiana authorized the inclusion of customer-side LSL replacement as eligible infrastructure improvements for investor-owned and municipal water utilities. Ind. Code § 8-1-31.6-7 and Ind. Code §8-1-31.6-8.

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Newark LSLR Program

Newark requires mandatory LSLR

The City of Newark’s code requires mandatory replacement of all lead service lines and requires proof of LSLR for customers to opt-out. City of Newark Code of Ordinances § 16:23-4.

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The City of Oshkosh requires LSLR

The city of Oshkosh requires existing lead service lines that are connected to the city’s water system to be replaced. Oshkosh Mun. Code §20-13 (f).

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The City of Milwaukee mandates LSLR

The city of Milwaukee mandates lead service line replacements based on its general municipal authority and its authority to regulate water connections to houses. Milwaukee Code of Ordinances: Plumbing and Drainage–Lead Service Line Replacement §225-22.5(3).

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Newark enables automatic enrollment & private property access

Newark, NJ enables default enrollment and allows utilities to access private property to replace lead service lines in the event of non-responsive owners, City of Newark Municipal Code §16:23-4.

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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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