WIU, Silvis, Moline earn project award

WIU, Silvis, Moline earn project award

The City of Moline and the City of Silvis, IL, partnered with Western Illinois University to develop a regional partnership for engaging faculty and students in service line material inventories.

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St. Paul Regional Water hires 30 new employees to speed lead line replacement

St. Paul Regional Water hires 30 new employees to speed lead line replacement and has grown its workforce by at least 10% to meet the growing need to expand their lead service line replacement program.

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PWSA celebrates LSL replacement

PWSA celebrates its 10,000th lead service line replacement

Pittsburgh Water celebrated the 10,000th line replaced in a news article to highlight the program’s success and boost community visibility.

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New Jersey American Water to Add Lead Service Line Replacement Charge to Customers’ Bills

New Jersey American Water to Add Lead Service Line Replacement Charge to Customers’ Bills Beginning February 13, 2023

NJ American Water implemented a lead service line replacement surcharge for all its customer base to replace all lead services by 203, averaging about $3/month per residential customer.

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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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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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Guidance

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 service line inventory

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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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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