Guidance

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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Rationale for Utilizing Predictive Modeling to Identify Lead Service Lines

New Jersey DEP’s Division of Science and Research examined whether predictive modeling is as effective as other methods to locate lead service lines.

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Rental Properties: Overcoming Barriers to Lead Service Line Replacement

This webinar explores strategies for overcoming the unique challenges of lead service line replacement in rental properties, including legal, logistical, and communication barriers.

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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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Lead-Free Water Challenge: What We Learned About Data Management and Lead Service Line Inventories

A spotlight on best practices in data management, ranging from building a single source of truth to digitizing records and outlining requirements for effective data management based on learnings from the lead-free water challenge.

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From the ground up: A guide to replacing the nation’s toxic lead pipes over the next decade

This report provides best practices for lead service line replacement based on lessons learned from the Lead-Free Water Challenge.

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Youngstown to put $1.6M toward lead pipe removal at nearly 100 homes, starting this summer

Mayor Jamael Tito Brown and US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan went door-to-door talking to residents about lead service line replacement.

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A policy role cities can play in replacing lead pipes faster and equitably

This blog highlights how municipal ordinances can accelerate and ensure equitable lead pipe replacement by mandating full service line removal, granting right-of-entry for replacements, and providing financial assistance to homeowners.

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How does Denver Water replace lead service lines

Denver Water uses a neighborhood replacement approach to optimize contractor scheduling and construction. The utility also prioritized neighborhoods based on numerous factors such as disadvantaged neighborhoods, socioeconomic indicators, and areas with high concentrations of schools, childcare facilities, and expecting families.

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Lead Service Line Replacement at a Blistering Pace Newark, New Jersey

The City of Newark leveraged batch processing of permits for entire streets or neighborhoods as an effective strategy to reduce time spent by contractors to arrange approval prior to starting work.

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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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