Category: Announcement

Lead pipes

Past Lead Service Line Replacement Projects

The City of Elgin has been coordinating LSLR with ongoing sewer renewal work and water main replacements.

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Water Infrastructure

Governor Hochul Announces Nearly $90 Million to Replace Lead Service Lines and Protect Drinking Water Across New York

Gov. Hochul authorized the use of NY’s Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act of 2022  to repay the loan portion of awards for LSLR projects from the NY’s DWSRF.

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Troy NY lead water line canvassing

City of Troy Mayor and Administration to Go Door-to-Door for Lead Pipe Testing Canvassing

Mayor Carmella Montello along with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students went door-to-door canvassing to collect lead service line inventory data.

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Governor Walz Signs Bill Providing $240 Million to Replace Lead Pipes Across the State

Governor Walz Signs Bill Providing $240 Million to Replace Lead Pipes Across the State

The state of Minnesota dedicated $240 million for lead pipe replacement via the state’s lead service line replacement funding program.

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DC Water

DC Water and the District Department of Employment Services Launch the Lead Free DC Community Activators Program

DC Water trained community members to educate and encourage residents and homeowners to participate in the lead pipe replacement program.

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Large water pipe that read Drinking Water

Memorandum: Implementation of the Clean Water and Drinking Water State

This memorandum provides information and guidelines on how EPA will award and administer SRF Capitalization Grants appropriated to the State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) account in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), also known as the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021” (IIJA).

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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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