The LSLR Collaborative recently hosted a webina featuring Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD), Milwaukee Water Works (MWW), and the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC). The webinar discussed utility strategies for efficiently engaging households and gaining access to private-side lead service lines (LSL) for replacement.
Pittsburgh has transformed a 2016 lead water crisis into a national model, replacing over 13,000 lead service lines with an innovative trenchless method that swaps them for copper, minimizing disruption to homes.
Community Water Center launched the Community Water Leaders Network to address systemic exclusion of low-income, rural communities of color in water decision making.
Evansville is offering to replace lead pipes in some west side neighborhoods at no cost.
Indianapolis socializes LSL replacemnet costs so customers pay less than $5 per bill.
Akron has completed the removal of all lead service lines, becoming one of the first major U.S. cities to be lead-free.
The City of Cynthiana has removed all of its lead piping, as of January 2, 2026.
This article provides an example of how water utilities can combine, GIS, predictive modeling, and physical verification to plan and prioritize replacements.
Wilmington Water announces updates to its Line Map and announces the replacement of nearly 1,000 service lines.
The Fight for Progress is an unprecedented all-access deep dive into the complex subject of lead service line replacement in Wisconsin.
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:
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