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Lead in Drinking Water Fact Sheet

This Connecticut Department of Public Health fact sheet explains how lead can enter drinking water, outlines associated health risks and offers practical steps to reduce exposure.

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Lead in Drinking Water Safety Tips

This video offers practical steps to reduce exposure to lead in drinking water.

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Guidance

Engaging with the Community on Lead Service Lines

Information for water systems on how to keep their community engaged and informed on LSLR.

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Guidance

Louisville/Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) Community Benefits Program

The Metropolitan Sewer District has a community benefits program demonstrating how partnerships between community-based organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions can be part of professional services contracting.

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Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Water Equity Task Force

The city’s Water Equity Task Force is an example of collaboration between the utility and nonprofit organizations to develop and diversify the local workforce.

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Illinois Works Apprenticeship Initiative

The Illinois Works Apprenticeship Initiative requires that apprentices perform at least 10% of labor hours on public projects over $500,000 funded by state capital, promoting workforce development through state contracts, grants, and loans

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Tools & Guides Maps

Highlighting Mayoral Action

This map spotlights mayors in the news speaking about lead pipes in their community and plans to replace them.

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Guidance

Identifying Potential Partners

A guide for local elected officials to identify partners, stakeholders, and decision-makers to advance LSLR.

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Sample LSLR ordinance

This template provides sample language to draft a local ordinance mandating full LSLR and enabling water utilities to access properties to replace the private portion of the LSL.

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LSLR Financing Case Study: Green Bay, WI

The City of Green Bay used Lambeau Field stadium tax revenue to help pay for private lead service line replacement.

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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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