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Lead Service Line Replacement Cost Calculator™

A free, multilingual tool that enables municipalities and utilities to generate customized cost estimates for replacing lead service lines, supporting informed planning and budgeting efforts.

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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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Platteville Lead Service Line Program

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

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Sample LSLR ordinance

This template provides sample language to draft a local ordinance mandating full LSLR and enabling water utilities to access properties to replace the private portion of the LSL.

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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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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 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 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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Swordfish: Combined buried lead pipe detection and leak location in one unit

Swordfish identifies lead pipes using an auto-fed cable and low-voltage conductivity probe that goes in the pipe, without the need for excavation.

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Viken Detection. Detection technology that preys on threats

Viken Detection’s XRF – PB200 x-ray imaging technology can be used to detect lead service lines without excavation.

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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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