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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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Illinois Lead Service Line Replacement and Notification Act

Illinois State law requires all water systems to develop and maintain service line inventories. Water systems must submit inventories to the IL Environmental Protection agency and be made publicly available on the IL EPA website. 415 ILCS 5/17.12 §17.12 (a). This law also prioritizes replacements for high-risk facilities, such as preschools, child care facilities, parks, playgrounds, hospitals, and clinics, and high-risk areas identified by the community water supply. 20 ILCS 605 §605-870(c).

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Jacobs Hires University Students to Inventory Wisconsin’s Lead Service Lines and Meet Federal Deadlines

The Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, along with Jacobs Engineering and UW Oshkosh, hired students to collect service line information.

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New York Lead Pipe Right to Know Act

New York requires water systems to develop and submit service line inventories to the Department of Health, and for the department to make these inventories public. NY. Pub. Health Law § 1114-b.

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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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Minnesota Lead Inventory Tracking Tool

The State of Minnesota has developed an online tool mapping all inventories throughout the state, down to the individual line. The website and database are created in collaboration with academic partners.

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Guide to Equity Analysis

This guide compiles recommendations for how to implement an equitable LSLR program, including data sources to use in prioritization decisions.

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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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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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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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