Tools & Guides Pipes 2

Lead in Drinking Water Fact Sheet

This Connecticut Department of Public Health fact sheet explains how lead can enter drinking water, outlines associated health risks and offers practical steps to reduce exposure.

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Guidance

Identifying Potential Partners

A guide for local elected officials to identify partners, stakeholders, and decision-makers to advance LSLR.

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Lead Service Line Inventory

NC DEQ provides guidance and templates for lead service line inventories and notices for lead, galvanized requiring replacement, and unknown material service lines.

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Disclosure of Information of Lead in Drinking Water in Real Estate Transactions

A compendium of examples where disclosure laws and ordinances have been adopted across the country.

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Checklist

Start a conversation: Ask the right questions to make key program decision

A guide for local elected officials to ask key questions when starting a LSLR program.

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Lessons from Four Illinois Mayors Interviews

We interviewed mayors and utility staff from four Illinois communities who are working to comply with the Illinois state mandate to replace lead service lines.

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Community Engagement in Denver, CO

Denver Water is a national model for lead service line replacement and has one of the most comprehensive programs in the country, designed to replace all lead service lines in Denver Water’s service area over the course of 15 years.

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Volunteers check for lead water pipes in Lancaster homes

Volunteers check for lead water pipes in Lancaster homes

Americorps volunteers help collect inventory information in Lancaster homes.

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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 water pipe lines

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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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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