Lead service line inventory

Lead-Free Water Challenge: What We Learned About Data Management and Lead Service Line Inventories

A spotlight on best practices in data management, ranging from building a single source of truth to digitizing records and outlining requirements for effective data management based on learnings from the lead-free water challenge.

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Workers replacing lead pipes in a neighborhood

From the ground up: A guide to replacing the nation’s toxic lead pipes over the next decade

This report provides best practices for lead service line replacement based on lessons learned from the Lead-Free Water Challenge.

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Newark LSL replacement program

A policy role cities can play in replacing lead pipes faster and equitably

This blog highlights how municipal ordinances can accelerate and ensure equitable lead pipe replacement by mandating full service line removal, granting right-of-entry for replacements, and providing financial assistance to homeowners.

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Man holding lead pipe

Echoing Newark: How American Cities Can Replicate Newark’s Success in Replacing Over 23,000 Lead Pipes in Under Three Years

The City of Newark sped up contractor timelines, advertised multiple contracts close together to lower costs, and issued varied contract sizes to support local small firms.

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Detroit LSL replacement

Full Lead Service Line Replacements (FLSLR) at Various Locations throughout the City of Detroit WS-721 (Project A)

The City of Detroit included options for contractors to use directional boring in their contract giving preference to this method to minimize impacts on customer properties.

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Service line warranties

Akron, Service Line Warranties of America to offer residents water line warranties

The City of Akron partnered with Service Line Warranties of America to offer service line warranties for LSLs.

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LSL replacement

Recognizing Efforts to Replace Lead Service Lines

This white paper outlines how 17 states were proactively supporting lead service line (LSL) replacement through policies that enable funding, mandate inventories, and promote full replacements to protect public health between 2016-2020.

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Replacing lead pipes at construction site

Municipal Strategies For Full Lead Service Line Replacement: Lessons From Across The United States – Lead Service Line Replacement With Water Infrastructure Improvement Projects

This article highlights how water systems are successfully performing LSL removals, including coordinating LSLR with other construction activities.

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Testing water for lead at home

New study: Homebuyers and renters take action when told they may have a lead service line

A Cornell and EDF study found that informing prospective homebuyers and renters about lead service lines significantly increases their willingness to take action, regardless of how the information is presented.

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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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