Category: Outreach

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LSL Replacement: Outreach Materials

Examples of the types of outreach materials water utilities need to communicate effectively about LSL replacement.

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Engaging Your Community: Strategies for Clear Communication and Effective Outreach

Best practices for clear communication and effective community outreach around water issues.

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Hartford, VT: Lead Service Line Inventory and Replacement Plan

EPIC provided assistance to the Town of Hartford for developing and submitting both Quechee Central and Hartford Water systems’ lead service line (LSL) inventory and replacement plans to comply with the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR).

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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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Lead Communications

AWWA’s Lead Communications provides a variety of templates and tools for customer outreach.

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What’s Lurking in Your Lines? A Menacing Threat Could be on the Prowl

The Oshkosh water utility outreach materials have sample images for guiding customers on how to determine service line material. These materials are also provided in multiple languages.

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After Lead Service Line Replacement/Después Del Reemplazo De La Línea De Servicio De Plomo

Denver Water develops outreach materials, such as factsheets on activities after lead service line replacement in English and Spanish.

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Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW) Programa de Reemplazo de Tuberías de Plomo (Español)

Greater Cincinnati Water Works factsheet explaining their lead service line program in Spanish

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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 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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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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