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.
Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority developed a storyline website to provide customers with a background on their program.
DC Water developed a construction dashboard so residents can track active and planned replacement projects.
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).
The Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, along with Jacobs Engineering and UW Oshkosh, hired students to collect service line information.
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.
NC DEQ provides guidance and templates for lead service line inventories and notices for lead, galvanized requiring replacement, and unknown material service lines.
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.
This guide compiles recommendations for how to implement an equitable LSLR program, including data sources to use in prioritization decisions.
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.
PLEM provides a publicly available mapping tool to show potential sources of lead exposure in New Jersey.