The Garage Community Youth Center

The Garage Community and Youth Center

Thanks to support from The Garage Community and Youth Center volunteers, the Borough of Avondale achieved an 80% customer response rate for service line inventory information.

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Pittsburgh North Shore

Community Lead Response Advisory Committee

Pittsburgh Water established the Community Lead Response Advisory Committee to help best serve customers during the lead service line replacement process.

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Coalition Lead Emergency

Coalition on Lead Emergency

The Milwaukee Coalition on Lead Emergency (COLE) has been active in advising the city on a variety of issues related to lead service line replacement, including the city’s equity plan._x000D_

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Getting to Yes: How effective engagement with residents can ease lead service line replacement Challenges

This report emphasizes that effective resident engagement, marketing, and public education strategies—through clear communication and addressing homeowner concerns—is crucial for overcoming barriers and accelerating lead service line replacement efforts.

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Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW) Programa de Reemplazo de Tuberías de Plomo (Español)

Greater Cincinnati Water Works factsheet explaining their lead service line program in Spanish

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Transparency in action: Map of public LSL replacement programs

EDF’s map spotlights lead service line replacement programs across the country, including financial assistance for private side replacements

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Factsheet: Notification of Known or Potential Service Line Containing Lead

EPA’s fact sheet outlines requirements under the 2021 Lead and Copper Rule Revisions.

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Tapping into Success: Strategies for Effective Lead Service Line Replacement Communications

This report offers strategies for effective communication in lead service line replacement programs, emphasizing proactive community engagement to ensure safe and efficient lead pipe removal.

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Check your water pipes for Lead during the #DrinkingWaterWeek

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

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How Newark, NJ is Getting the Lead Out

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.

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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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