Alliance of Indiana Rural Water Apprenticeship Program

Water & Wastewater Operations Specialist Apprenticeship Programs

The Alliance of Indiana Rural Water offers a two-year training program to upskill apprentices to become employable as a Systems Operations Specialist in the water sector.

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Grand Rapids water career program

Water Career Program

The City of Grand Rapids partnered with Grand Rapids Community College and Bay College to introduce high school students and adult learners to water and wastewater careers.

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Work for Water

Work for Water

Milwaukee Water Works has education and training programs to create pipelines for careers in water. This program has also compiled a list of local colleges and programs that can help job seekers earn a career in water.

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Milwaukee workforce

Milwaukee’s Lead Pipe Replacement Is Boosting Workforce Development

Milwaukee’s LSLR program is boosting workforce development by requiring contractors to hire 40% of their workforce from disadvantaged zip codes.

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Detroit lead service line replacement

Detroit set workforce requirements for LSLR via executive order

Executive Order 2021-02 requires all construction projects greater than $3 million to have 51% of the workforce be bona-fide Detroit residents.

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Technology pipes vector

New Service Connections

Vyntelligence provides a platform used by utilities in the UK to collect customer information and document new service connections. The platform allows video to be captured as a communication and documentation tool.

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Technology pipes vector

FYLD: Fieldwork execution platform powered by AI

FYLD is a documentation platform that has been used by utilities globally to better document on-site construction safety through video and data capture of site conditions.

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Guidance

Three Strategies to Reduce Costs: Purchasing Partnerships for Water Systems

This resource provides examples of purchasing partnerships for water systems.

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New Jersey removes lead pipes

Removing Service Lines in New Jersey

This article celebrates the kick-off of Passaic Valley’s LSLR program setting a goal to remove all LSLs in 2025.

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Technology pipes vector

Advances in Creating a Lead Service Line Inventory

ESRI’s Lead Service Line Inventory Solution configures ArcGIS to create and maintain lead service inventories, conduct material verifications in the field, manage replacement activities, monitor progress, and inform the community. ArcGIS platform is a common GIS tool leveraged in the water sector for maintaining assets.

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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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