DC lead service line replacement plan

DC Water 2023 LSLR Plan: Prioritization for the Block-By-Block Program

DC Water uses a model to prioritize LSLR in disadvantaged communities that are already marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution.

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Jacobs Hires University Students to Inventory Wisconsin’s Lead Service Lines and Meet Federal Deadlines

The Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, along with Jacobs Engineering and UW Oshkosh, hired students to collect service line information.

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The City of Malden’s LSL disclosure ordinance

Malden requires that sellers and landlords disclose the presence of lead service lines. City of Malden Mun. Code Section §9.24.010.

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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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Denver Lead Reduction Program

What is Denver Water’s Lead Reduction Program?

Denver Water uses federal funding, rates, bonds, and other sources to cover the cost of full lead service line replacement.

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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 Reduction Program: Community Engagement

Denver Water has partnered with trusted community organizations to engage and share information about their Lead Reduction Program._x000D_

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#419GetTheLeadOut

Junction Coalition, a community-based organization, helped provide the public perspective and door canvassing alongside the water utility in Toledo.

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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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