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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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Forms for Public Water Systems – Lead and Copper Rule

Maryland Dept. of Environment provides a variety for lead service line public education.

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Do you have lead pipes in your home?

A simple interactive guide to identify lead service line materials.

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Mission Unleaded

An informational website for the public to learn of potential sources of lead and what they can do if exposed.

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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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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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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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Lead in Drinking Water Safety Tips

This video offers practical steps to reduce exposure to lead in drinking water.

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Lead in Drinking Water Fact Sheet

This Connecticut Department of Public Health fact sheet explains how lead can enter drinking water, outlines associated health risks and offers practical steps to reduce exposure.

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Guidance on Lead Service Line Replacement Plans

VT DEC requires specific prioritization factors beyond the minimum requirement established in the LCRI that give additional priority to high-risk groups. They also include a list of suggested prioritization factors to increase the public health benefit of LSLR programs.

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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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