City of Wausau celebrates their 1,000th lead service line removal

City of Wausau celebrates their 1,000th lead service line removal

City officials gathered with partners and community members to celebrate the city’s 1000th lead service line removal.

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Automatic Enrollment Policies Make Lead Service Line Replacement Projects More Efficient by Addressing Common Workflow Challenges

Automatic Enrollment Policies Make Lead Service Line Replacement Projects More Efficient by Addressing Common Workflow Challenges

Common scenarios that water systems encounter when replacing lead service lines (LSLs) and how automatic enrollment policies help expedite replacements in each one.

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Workers replacing lead pipes

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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Detroit water sewer

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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Guidance

Three Strategies to Reduce Costs: Purchasing Partnerships for Water Systems

This resource provides examples of purchasing partnerships for water systems.

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Technology pipes vector

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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Milwaukee Complete Streets Resolution

Milwaukee’s Complete Streets Resolution

Milwaukee passed a resolution in 2018 requires green stormwater infrastructure to be incorporated into street and sidewalk projects.

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Baltimore

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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Tools & Guides Calculator

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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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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