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Water lead pipe

Do you have lead pipes in your home?

A simple interactive guide to identify lead service line materials.

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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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DC Water stakeholders

DC Water Stakeholder Alliance welcomes new members to collaborate on key issues

The DC Water Stakeholder Alliance brings together residents, elected officials, community organizations, and businesses to provide input on water infrastructure projects, including lead service line replacement.

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Water pipe with lead corrosion

Jacobs Hires University Students to Inventory Wisconsin’s Lead Service Lines and Meet Federal Deadlines

The Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, along with Jacobs Engineering and UW Oshkosh, hired students to collect service line information.

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Detroit water sewer

Revolutionizing Lead Service Line Removal: A Milestone for Detroit’s Water Infrastructure

The City of Detroit has leveraged predictive modeling to achieve a 75% decrease in its proposed project schedule, assess communities most at risk, and reduce the estimated number of lead service lines from 120,000 to 80,000.

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Baltimore awards $7.6 million contract for lead water line inspections

The City of Baltimore is leveraging in-pipe lead detection methods to identify lead service lines in their distribution system.

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Lead pipe detection Cleveland

Cleveland Water Alliance demonstrates new technology that will allow detection of lead pipes without digging

The Cleveland Water Alliance demonstrates how Solinas Technologies – Acoustic Technology can be used to detect lead pipes without digging, resulting in substantial cost savings.

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Aqua to begin second phase of downtown Struthers water main replacement.

Aqua to begin second phase of downtown Struthers water main replacement. What to know

Aqua plans on replacing lead pipes found during water main replacements in Struthers, OH at no direct cost to the homeowner.

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A New Era For Water Management: Harnessing GIS Innovations And Collaboration For A Resilient Future

Hopeworks equips interns with the skills to develop models, analyze data, and create visualizations, to support water utilities in need of technical support with service line inventory and replacement projects.

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USDA loan helps replace lead water lines in Kingsford

USDA loan helps replace lead water lines in Kingsford

Kingsford secured a USDA loan to remove 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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