Guidance

Planning and Developing a Service Line Inventory

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

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Benton Harbor LSLR Status Dashboard

The city of Benton Harbor has an LSLR Status dashboard that identifies how many LSLs are present in the system and how many have been replaced.

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Platteville Lead Service Line Program

Platteville has an LSLR dashboard that identifies funding sources and applicability.

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Greater Cincinnati Water Works Service Line Information

Greater Cincinnati Water Works maintains an LSLR map that clearly denotes the public and private side service line materials.

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Get the Lead Out: YCUA’s Proactive Lead Service Line Identification Program

Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority developed a storyline website to provide customers with a background on their program.

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Lead Free DC Construction Dashboard

DC Water developed a construction dashboard so residents can track active and planned replacement projects.

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Technology pipes vector

FYLD: Fieldwork execution platform powered by AI

FYLD is a documentation platform that has been used by utilities globally to better document on-site construction safety through video and data capture of site conditions.

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Tools & Guides Maps

Massachusetts Service Line Inventory

The MA Department of Environmental Protection keeps a regularly updated publicly accessible GIS map of public service line inventories submitted to the state.

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Tools & Guides Maps

Potential Lead Exposure Mapping (PLEM) in New Jersey

PLEM provides a publicly available mapping tool to show potential sources of lead exposure in New Jersey.

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Rhode Island Lead Service Line Public Transparency Dashboard

The State of Rhode Island has developed an interactive map where users can input their address to find if their home may have a LSL.

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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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