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Engaging Landlords and Tenants in Lead Service Line Replacement

Engaging landlords and tenants is essential to ensure equitable and effective lead service line replacement, especially in rental properties where children face the greatest risk.

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Augustana College students help Port Byron survey its water pipe lines

Port Byron engaged college students to go door-to-door to complete the service line inventory.

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Lead Service Line Replacement Program Testimonial

Greater Cincinnati Water Works collected customer testimonials from successful lead service line replacement to boost their program’s visibility.

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City of Troy Mayor and Administration to Go Door-to-Door for Lead Pipe Testing Canvassing

Mayor Carmella Montello along with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students went door-to-door canvassing to collect lead service line inventory data.

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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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DC Water and the District Department of Employment Services Launch the Lead Free DC Community Activators Program

DC Water trained community members to educate and encourage residents and homeowners to participate in the lead pipe replacement program.

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WIU, Silvis, Moline earn project award

The City of Moline and the City of Silvis, IL, partnered with Western Illinois University to develop a regional partnership for engaging faculty and students in service line material inventories.

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PWSA celebrates its 10,000th lead service line replacement

Pittsburgh Water celebrated the 10,000th line replaced in a news article to highlight the program’s success and boost community visibility.

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Rental Properties: Overcoming Barriers to Lead Service Line Replacement

This webinar explores strategies for overcoming the unique challenges of lead service line replacement in rental properties, including legal, logistical, and communication barriers.

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Youngstown to put $1.6M toward lead pipe removal at nearly 100 homes, starting this summer

Mayor Jamael Tito Brown and US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan went door-to-door talking to residents about lead service line replacement.

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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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