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Building Trust Through the Airwaves: How Benton Harbor Used Community Radio to Tackle Lead Pipe Replacement

Benton Harbor Solutions hosted a community-led radio show that shared information on city efforts to replace lead service lines.

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Forms for Public Water Systems – Lead and Copper Rule

Maryland Dept. of Environment provides a variety for lead service line public education.

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Lead Free DC Construction Dashboard

DC Water developed a construction dashboard so residents can track active and planned replacement projects.

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Get the Lead Out: YCUA’s Proactive Lead Service Line Identification Program

Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority developed a storyline website to provide customers with a background on their program.

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Greater Cincinnati Water Works Service Line Information

Greater Cincinnati Water Works maintains an LSLR map that clearly denotes the public and private side service line materials.

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Platteville Lead Service Line Program

Platteville has an LSLR dashboard that identifies funding sources and applicability.

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Benton Harbor LSLR Status Dashboard

The city of Benton Harbor has an LSLR Status dashboard that identifies how many LSLs are present in the system and how many have been replaced.

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Do you have lead pipes in your home?

A simple interactive guide to identify lead service line materials.

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What’s Lurking in Your Lines? A Menacing Threat Could be on the Prowl

The Oshkosh water utility outreach materials have sample images for guiding customers on how to determine service line material. These materials are also provided in multiple languages.

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Learn More: How to Identify Pipe Material

Louisville Water Company posted an educational video to demonstrate how to identify material types in customer’s homes.

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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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