Posts tagged lead service line replacement
The What, the Why and the How for Lead Service Line Inventories
The What, the Why and the How for Lead Service Line Inventories

An inventory to identify the service lines in water systems across the country has a deadline of October 2024, as set by the U.S. EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR). Most water utilities, aside from Transient Non-Community Water Systems, must provide service line inventory information by the October deadline, which will eventually be used in efforts towards a correction to our water infrastructure nationwide: replacing the lead service lines of the past. Water providers now have a directive towards a water-infrastructure future without lead. But, how long has lead been associated with water pipes?

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Stacey Isaac Berahzerlead service line replacement, Lead and Copper Rule Revisions, water, Water Compliance, GeorgiaComment
Lead Service Lines: The Good, the Bad, the Money
Lead Service Lines: The Good, the Bad, the Money

Since the Flint, Michigan water crisis, there has been heightened awareness concerning the dangers of lead and how exposure to this poisonous metal affects the human body. Based on the proposed amendments to the EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR), there are as many as 9.3 million lead service lines (LSLs) in use across the United States. With water woven into the list of top priorities for the federal government, lead in water has become a main focus in proposed funding packages such as the American Jobs Plan, which proposes allocating $45 billion to fully replacing LSLs across the country.

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Alanna Kinnebrewlead service lines, lead service line replacement, Lead and Copper Rule Revisions, American Jobs Plan, water finance, water affordabilityComment