Category: Guidance

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From Inventory to Action: Countdown to the 2027 LCRI Deadline

This article provides a comprehensive roadmap for utilities to achieve compliance, including inventory, planning, financing and strategic execution.

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The countdown to November 1, 2027: why the next LCRI deadline matters

This blog highlights upcoming LCRI deadlines, and steps water utilities need to take to ensure compliance.

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Lead and Children’s Health StoryMap

This educational story map highlights the health impacts of lead exposure in children, sources of exposure, and protective measures.

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What Cities Need to Know about Lead Service Line Replacement Requirements – and How to Fund It

Guidance for local governments to comply with the EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) and Improvements (LCRI). Outlining regulatory requirements, strategies for public communication and risk management, and offering resources to support communities.

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Tapping into Lead Service Line Funding Opportunities

Explore a list of funding and financing resources utilities can consider to fund lead service line replacement.

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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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Identifying Potential Partners

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

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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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Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Grant Application Bootcamp

This tool allows utilities to assess the business case for implementing a discount program for low-income customers to help provide safe and affordable water and sanitation to everyone in their communities.

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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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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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