Category: Outreach

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Lead in Drinking Water Fact Sheet

This Connecticut Department of Public Health fact sheet explains how lead can enter drinking water, outlines associated health risks and offers practical steps to reduce exposure.

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Lead in Drinking Water Safety Tips

This video offers practical steps to reduce exposure to lead in drinking water.

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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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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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Lead Service Line Replacement Program: Registration and Right of Entry

The City of Newark provides an online Right of Entry form for property owners to sign-up to the LSLR and provide the City and its representatives with the right to enter their property.

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Lead Service Line Replacement Consent Form

Denver Water provides an Acknowledgement and Consent for Lead Service Line Replacement form in English and Spanish to help the program move more efficiently.

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LSLR Consent for Service form

The City of Flint provides an online Consent to Service letter that customers can download and mail to the LSLR program offices.

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Mission Unleaded

An informational website for the public to learn of potential sources of lead and what they can do if exposed.

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Lead Help Desk

Pittsburgh Wate’s Lead Help Desk lists a phone number and email address avialble for customers to voice questions and concerns.

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Lead And Drinking Water Portal

Missouri American Water online portal that allows customers to schedule appointments with contractors directly.

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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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