USDA loan helps replace lead water lines in Kingsford

USDA loan helps replace lead water lines in Kingsford

Kingsford secured a USDA loan to remove lead service lines.

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Stretching the Dollar to Get the Lead Out: Lead Service Line Contracting

This contracting guide highlights key contracting components that utilities should consider including in their programs to ensure funding is utilized effectively.

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Volunteers check for lead water pipes in Lancaster homes

Volunteers check for lead water pipes in Lancaster homes

Americorps volunteers help collect inventory information in Lancaster homes.

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Milwaukee’s Formula for Lead Line Replacement

This Waterloop podcast episode highlights Milwaukee’s success in replacing LSLs.

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Stretching the Dollar to Get the Lead Out: Good Decision-Making and Planning for Lead Service Line Cost Efficiencies

This policy brief highlights strategies that utilities and/or state agencies should consider adopting to make informed, holistic decisions when spending money on LSL programs.

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Stretching the Dollar to Get the Lead Out: Advancing Lead Service Line Programs with Low or No-Cost Policies and Practices

This policy brief highlights low or no-cost policies and practices that have proven successful for many water utilities, and can be replicated in an effort to lower the overall total price tag of lead service line replacement nationwide.

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Maximizing the Impact of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding: Operating Principles for Establishing an Efficient and Effective Lead Service Line Replacement Program

This article outlines general principles to maximize available federal funding for lead service line replacement.

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Elgin saves $1.2M on residential lead pipe removal work thanks to contractor finding more efficiencies

Elgin saved $1.2 million on its 2023 contract to replace lead water service lines, money that will be poured back into the city’s ongoing effort to remove pipelines at about 10,000 homes.

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Engaging Landlords and Tenants in Lead Service Line Replacement

Engaging landlords and tenants is essential to ensure equitable and effective lead service line replacement, especially in rental properties where children face the greatest risk.

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Augustana college students help Port Byron survey water pipe lines

Augustana College students help Port Byron survey its water pipe lines

Port Byron engaged college students to go door-to-door to complete the service line inventory.

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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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