Wastewater utilities

Regional Partnership Program: A Community-Led Approach

The paper examines how voluntary regional collaboration (e.g., informal cooperation, contractual assistance, joint regional entities, and consolidation) can help strengthen water and wastewater systems serving small and rural communities.

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Lead Pipe Replacement Assistance Program

For a residence in the District, if DC Water’s Lead Map shows that the private portion of the service pipe is lead, galvanized, or brass, and the public portion is not, the residential property owner is eligible for the Lead Pipe Replacement Assistance Program (LPRAP).

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From Inventory to Action: Countdown to the 2027 LCRI Deadline

This article provides a comprehensive roadmap for utilities to achieve compliance, including inventory, planning, financing and strategic execution.

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Auburn LSL Potholing Eligibility, an Application Built with ArcGIS Experience Builder

Potholing and GIS: Prioritization Planning for Lead Service Line Replacement

This article provides an example of how water utilities can combine, GIS, predictive modeling, and physical verification to plan and prioritize replacements.

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Wilmington Delaware

Wilmington Water Launches Updated Service Line Map, Begins Outreach for Lead Testing

Wilmington Water announces updates to its Line Map and announces the replacement of nearly 1,000 service lines.

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Leveraging Lead Service Line Replacement for Workforce Inclusion and Growth

This report explores how LSL replacement can create economic benefits for disinvested and low-income communities in Illinois by creating workforce opportunities.

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The Big Barrier to Removing Toxic Lead Pipes

The Big Barrier to Removing Toxic Lead Pipes

The Passaic Valley Water Commission explains how New Jersey’s lead service line replacement effort is confronting a practical reality: utilities can’t replace what they can’t access.

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A utility technician completes the connection of a newly installed copper service line with the existing interior plumbing of a residential basement.

Property-by-Property Replacements, June 2026 through Mid-2027

This notice communicates Napervilles plans for 2026 LSL replacement projects.

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Executive Director of the Sewerage and Water Board Randy Hayman speaks during the City Council Public Works Committee meeting at New Orleans City Hall on March 10, 2026. Credit: Christiana Botic/Verite News and Catchlight Local/Report for America

Two new bills could allow New Orleans residents to have their lead pipes replaced for free

Two bills before the Louisiana State Legislature could clear the way for the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans to use federal funds to pay for replacing lead service lines on residents’ private property.

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Baltimore County offers free LSLR through 2026

Baltimore County offers free LSLR through 2026

The Baltimore County Department of Public Works & Transportation (DPWT) is providing free replacements for customer-side lead water service lines.

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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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