Property documents

Philadelphia’s landlord LSL disclosure

The City of Philadelphia requires landlords to disclose to tenants the presence of any known lead service lines and provide a pamphlet outlining ways to reduce the risk of lead exposure.

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Neighborhood Atlas®: Area Deprivation Index

The Area Deprivation Index includes factors like income, education, employment, and housing quality to generate rankings of neighborhoods by socioeconomic disadvantage at the state or national level.

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Area Deprivation Index

A data-driven approach to prioritize neighborhoods for LSLR

Milwaukee uses an Area Deprivation Index to prioritize neighborhoods for LSLR.

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Construction worker rolling out a copper pipe

Lead FAQs: When can I get my lead service line replaced?

Greater Cincinnati Water Works collaborated with the University of Cincinnati to develop a Prioritization model.

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DC lead service line replacement plan

DC Water 2023 LSLR Plan: Prioritization for the Block-By-Block Program

DC Water uses a model to prioritize LSLR in disadvantaged communities that are already marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution.

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Detroit water sewer

Revolutionizing Lead Service Line Removal: A Milestone for Detroit’s Water Infrastructure

The City of Detroit has leveraged predictive modeling to achieve a 75% decrease in its proposed project schedule, assess communities most at risk, and reduce the estimated number of lead service lines from 120,000 to 80,000.

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Technology pipes vector

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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Technology pipes vector

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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Young girl drinking water

Lead Pipes and Environmental Justice. A study of lead pipe replacement in Washington, DC

This report found that lead pipe replacement programs in Washington, DC disproportionately benefited wealthier, predominantly white neighborhoods, leaving low-income and minority communities at greater risk of lead exposure due to the financial burden of replacing private service lines.

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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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