Category: Guidance

Guidance

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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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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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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Guide to Equity Analysis

This guide compiles recommendations for how to implement an equitable LSLR program, including data sources to use in prioritization decisions.

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Public Sector Apprenticeship Toolkit (pdf)

This toolkit provides guidance on how to address critical workforce shortages in state and local governments.

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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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Coordination of Replacement Activity

This resource provides strategies for coordinating public and private-side replacements, reducing disruptions, and improving communication with residents

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Factsheet: Notification of Known or Potential Service Line Containing Lead

EPA’s fact sheet outlines requirements under the 2021 Lead and Copper Rule Revisions.

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Implementing Lead Service Line Replacement Projects Funded by the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund

EPA’s memo describes requirements and exceptions for full lead service line replacement and details exceptions for projects funded by Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF).

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Public Sector Apprenticeship Toolkit

A comprehensive guide to help state and local government leaders and HR professionals create and sustain registered apprenticeship programs to address talent shortages.

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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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