This blog highlights how municipal ordinances can accelerate and ensure equitable lead pipe replacement by mandating full service line removal, granting right-of-entry for replacements, and providing financial assistance to homeowners.

Denver Water uses a neighborhood replacement approach to optimize contractor scheduling and construction. The utility also prioritized neighborhoods based on numerous factors such as disadvantaged neighborhoods, socioeconomic indicators, and areas with high concentrations of schools, childcare facilities, and expecting families.

This memorandum provides information and guidelines on how EPA will award and administer SRF Capitalization Grants appropriated to the State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) account in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), also known as the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021” (IIJA).

The City of Newark leveraged batch processing of permits for entire streets or neighborhoods as an effective strategy to reduce time spent by contractors to arrange approval prior to starting work.

The City of Chelsea posted a video to guide customers in identifying whether they have lead service lines in their homes.

Newark’s lead service line replacement program created 500 local jobs, including 250 for previously unemployed residents. It incorporated apprenticeships and mandated local hiring and subcontracting to support community employment.

The City of Newark employed municipal bonding to pay for lead service line replacement. The unique financing package was nearly $200 million, primarily from a $120 million municipal bond issued on Newark’s behalf by the Essex County Improvement Authority, which took advantage of the Authority’s AAA bond rating. To pay the bond, the city renegotiated a lease agreement on city property that the Port Authority of NYNJ uses for transportation purposes.

The Newark Way of Thinking and Drinking communications campaign provides informative messaging such as puzzles, coloring sheets, paper boats, and fun at-home water-based science projects to spark conversations between children and their parents.

In this 3D VR180 video, Bloomberg visits the project site on a street in Newark and dig around – literally – to find out what it takes to pull off a project at this scale.

A Cornell and EDF study found that informing prospective homebuyers and renters about lead service lines significantly increases their willingness to take action, regardless of how the information is presented.