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Automatic Enrollment Policies Can Make Lead Service Line Replacement Projects More Efficient and Expedient

This blog explains how automatic enrollment policies to streamline lead service line replacement programs, reducing customer barriers and administrative burdens to accelerate the delivery of safe drinking water.

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LCRI Compliance Timeline Calculator

Use our calculator to determine if your water system is eligible for a deferral under the current Lead and Copper Rule Improvements.

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How are small municipalities tackling the lead service line dilemma?

The City of Platteville, WI secured and distributed a list of five pre-qualified plumbers for residents to use to replace private side LSLs.

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HydraSlitter Lead Lateral Replacement System

HammerHead® Trenchless offers the HydraSlitterTM technology as a kit to replace service lines with a trenchless method.

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Kobus Pipe Pullers Video Gallery

These videos demonstrate how this trenchless pulling method can be implemented to replace lead service lines.

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Cleveland Water Alliance demonstrates new technology that will allow detection of lead pipes without digging

The Cleveland Water Alliance demonstrates how Solinas Technologies – Acoustic Technology can be used to detect lead pipes without digging, resulting in substantial cost savings.

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Baltimore awards $7.6 million contract for lead water line inspections

The City of Baltimore is leveraging in-pipe lead detection methods to identify lead service lines in their distribution system.

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LCRR Data Management, Service Line Material Prediction, and Interactive Dashboards for the Middlesex Water Company

Middlesex Water Company leveraged predictive modeling to reduce their unknowns by 40%, saving significant effort and rapidly identifying inventory materials.

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Revolutionizing Lead Service Line Removal: A Milestone for Detroit’s Water Infrastructure

The City of Detroit has leveraged predictive modeling to achieve a 75% decrease in its proposed project schedule, assess communities most at risk, and reduce the estimated number of lead service lines from 120,000 to 80,000.

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Three Strategies to Reduce Costs: Purchasing Partnerships for Water Systems

This resource provides examples of purchasing partnerships for water systems.

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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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