Category: Template

Template pipes

Lead Service Line Inventory

NC DEQ provides guidance and templates for lead service line inventories and notices for lead, galvanized requiring replacement, and unknown material service lines.

Read More
Template pipes

Sample LSLR ordinance

This template provides sample language to draft a local ordinance mandating full LSLR and enabling water utilities to access properties to replace the private portion of the LSL.

Read More
Template pipes

Planning and Developing a Service Line Inventory: Inventory Template

As part of its guidance for service line inventories, EPA developed an inventory template for water systems, states, and Tribes to use or adapt to create their own. Utilities should additionally check with particular State requirements.

Read More
Template pipes

Lead Communications

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

Read More
Template pipes

Forms for Public Water Systems – Lead and Copper Rule

Maryland Dept. of Environment provides a variety for lead service line public education.

Read More

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.

Read more here.