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Potential Lead Exposure Mapping (PLEM) in New Jersey

PLEM provides a publicly available mapping tool to show potential sources of lead exposure in New Jersey.

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Massachusetts Service Line Inventory

The MA Department of Environmental Protection keeps a regularly updated publicly accessible GIS map of public service line inventories submitted to the state.

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Neighborhood Atlas®: Area Deprivation Index

The Area Deprivation Index includes factors like income, education, employment, and housing quality to generate rankings of neighborhoods by socioeconomic disadvantage at the state or national level.

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Highlighting Mayoral Action

This map spotlights mayors in the news speaking about lead pipes in their community and plans to replace them.

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Transparency in action: Map of public LSL replacement programs

EDF’s map spotlights lead service line replacement programs across the country, including financial assistance for private side replacements

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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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