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Planning and Developing a Service Line Inventory: Inventory Template

As part of its guidance for service line inventories, EPA developed an inventory template for water systems, states, and Tribes to use or adapt to create their own. Utilities should additionally check with particular State requirements.

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Guidance for Developing and Maintaining a Service Line Inventory

EPA guidance to help water systems follow best practices when building and maintaining their service line inventories.

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ArcGIS Survey 123

ArcGIS Survey 123 is an ESRI product that ties directly to the service line inventory. It can be customized as an online portal for the water system’s website to capture survey information and photos from customers and inspectors. Staff can review the results before updating the inventory information.

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Vyn for The Water Industry

Vyntelligence provides a platform that can be used to capture photos and videos from customers to verify service line materials on the private side.

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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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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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Tackling Lead Contamination: How Water Utility Companies and Citizens Can Unite to Ensure Safe Drinking Water

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a non-invasive technology that uses electromagnetic waves to detect and map subsurface structures with high levels of accuracy.

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Predictive modeling solutions for forward-thinking water systems

BlueConduit delivers rigorously designed, predictive and decision modeling tools that empower water system leaders to make informed decisions on behalf of the communities they serve.

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leadCAST® Predict: Unlock the power of AI to streamline your replacement

leadCAST Predict helps you accelerate the classification of unknown service lines and prioritize field verifications through advanced service line material predictions powered by machine learning. leadCAST Predict is an additional feature of leadCAST LCRR compliance management solution.

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Voda.ai Lead Management: Conquer the battle

VODA.ai Lead Management solution was created to help find lead service lines using machine learning models.

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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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