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Advances in Creating a Lead Service Line Inventory

ESRI’s Lead Service Line Inventory Solution configures ArcGIS to create and maintain lead service inventories, conduct material verifications in the field, manage replacement activities, monitor progress, and inform the community. ArcGIS platform is a common GIS tool leveraged in the water sector for maintaining assets.

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Milwaukee’s Formula for Lead Line Replacement

This Waterloop podcast episode highlights Milwaukee’s success in replacing LSLs.

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Benton Harbor Approves $33 Million in Contracts for Service Line Replacements

The city of Benton Harbor included a pay for success clause in their bid documents that provided contractors with an incentive for each day the work was completed ahead of schedule.

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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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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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