Lead Service Line Solutions
Starting in 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced revisions to the 1990 Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), including the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) and Proposed Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI). These critical updates aim to enhance public health protection by addressing lead and copper levels in drinking water systems. The proposed LCRI changes introduce several significant alterations and deadlines to the LCRR that water suppliers must be aware of to ensure compliance.
Compliance Support
Kleinfelder provides services to help ensure compliance with these significant regulatory changes. With extensive experience across all aspects of the LCRR/LCRI requirements, our team can support the development of a new compliance program from the ground up, or enhance your existing lead service line (LSL) identification program.
Funding, Grants, and Loans
- Funding Assistance: Assisting clients with obtaining federal/state funding through grants and zero-interest loans
Lead Service Line Identification, Field Inspection, and Mapping
- Data Digitization Solutions: Leveraging machine learning, AI, and optical character recognition (OCR) to help save significant time and money in digitizing large quantities of handwritten and aged documents
- Surveys and Inspections: Identifying and mapping lead service lines with the assistance of predictive modeling and dynamic field data collection. This industry-leading technical approach is bolstered by LSL field investigations, providing thousands of inspections across the country, annually
- LSL Inventory: Linked to live field data, our GIS-based inventories adopt the latest best practices. Our GIS specialists can create a completely new solution or refine an existing solution to meet regulatory deadlines
Engineering Design and Construction Services
- LSL Replacement Plan Development: Assisting in analyzing risk an existing system and providing prioritization plans for pipe replacement, focused on mitigating potential hazards and health impacts to customers
- Construction Oversight: Managing construction processes to help ensure efficient, safe, and compliant replacements with minimal service disruption
Community Engagement and Education
- Public Outreach: Helping effectively communicate regulations, notifications, and replacement plans while addressing community concerns
Lead Service Line Program Facts
2.5 Million+
Population Served
32,000
Documents Scanned
8,000
Field
Inspections
250,000
Service Lines
Verified
From our Professionals
“At Kleinfelder, we have grown a robust network of skilled professionals specializing in LCRR/LCRI compliance programs. We deliver innovative solutions to our clients wherever they are at in their LCRR/LCRI program. Each of our team members have personal connections and live in many of the communities we work in, and are driven to protect the public health of our friends, family, and neighbors.”
-Trevor S., PE, PMP, Senior Professional
Compliance Timeline
2024
- Develop an initial inventory and replacement plan by 10/16/24 and submit to primacy agency
- Notify customers of unknown service lines and service lines requiring replacement by 11/16/24
2025-2028
- Continued inventory updates and customer notifications
- Submit updated inventory to primacy agency annually
2028-2034
- Continued inventory updates and customer notifications
- Make service line replacement plan public by 10/16/2028
2034
- Complete inventory, continue customer notifications and service line replacements
2037
- Complete LCRR/LCRI requirements by 10/16/2037
*Timeline above is based on current LCRR and proposed LCRI, subject to change once LCRI is finalized.
Related Information
Navigating EPA’s Proposed Updated Regulations
This critical update aims to enhance public health protection by addressing lead and copper levels in drinking water systems. The proposed changes include significant alterations and deadlines.
Spotlight: San Diego Lead Service Line Inventory
Kleinfelder conducted field investigations and prepared an initial lead service line inventory of service line materials on the customer (private) side of the water meter, including all building types with a drinking water service.
