Category: Guidance

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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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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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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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Guidance for Utilizing Predictive Modeling to Identify Lead Service Lines for Inventory Development

New Jersey’s DEP issued guidance on the use of predictive modeling to develop service line inventories.

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Water Affordability Business Case Downloadable Tool

This tool allows utilities to assess the business case for implementing a discount program for low-income customers.

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How new and expanded federal programs can deliver good jobs and environmental benefits

This user guide offers a comprehensive roadmap to help stakeholders leverage federal investments for infrastructure modernization, job creation, and environmental improvements across key sectors.

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Water Affordability Advocacy Toolkit: Affordability and Assistance Programs

This tool highlights Philadelphia Water Department’s Tiered Assistance Program (TAP) as a model affordability program (p.8).

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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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