Lead in Water

This Infrastructure Week, We Can’t Forget About Residential Infrastructure

by Service Line Warranty Program | May 12, 2023 | Customer Testimonials, Financial Shock, Home Maintenance, Infographics, Lead in Water, Mixed Age Communities, NLC SLWP, Press Releases, Public-Private Partnerships, Service Line Responsibilities, ServLine, Water Loss

Norwalk, Connecticut – [DATE] – Every year during the third week of May – National Infrastructure Week – a little extra attention gets paid to the state of America’s infrastructure. This includes everything from airports, bridges and roads to drinking water,...

Lead Water Service Lines Pose Hidden, Yet Expensive, Danger

by Bill Eller | Apr 10, 2023 | Financial Shock, Lead in Water, NLC SLWP

When water runs through lead water service lines, it picks up minute particles of lead, carrying them along into homes, where residents drink it, cook with it, and wash their dishes, clothes and themselves in it. More than 9 million homes are served by lead water...

Dangerous Lead Service Line Removed From Home by Foundation

by Bill Eller | Nov 29, 2022 | Customer Testimonials, Customer Videos, HomeServe Cares, Intergenerational Communities, Lead in Water, New York, Testimonials, Videos

Gabrielle’s child was sick with lead poisoning because of their home's lead service line. She and her son lived with her father in his Lockport, New York, home. Her father diligently worked two jobs to help his daughter support his grandchild, despite a series of...

Lead Water Line Replacement: New York Homeowner Saves Big

by Bill Eller | Sep 20, 2022 | Home Maintenance, Infrastructure, Lead in Water, New York, Service Line Responsibilities

Linda B., a New York homeowner, had been widowed and was looking for assurance that repair costs wouldn't force her from her home. She turned to HomeServe. Linda B. of Lockport, New York, has had a difficult time of late, losing her husband in December and struggling...

Water Resiliency: Is It ‘Tomorrow’s Crisis’?

by Bill Eller | Sep 16, 2022 | EPA, Lead in Water

Water utilities, harried by aging infrastructure and a historic lack of federal infrastructure investment, may see climate change – and the needed infrastructure hardening for water resiliency – as “tomorrow’s crisis,” or something that can be addressed once what to...

Lead Water Service Line Replacement Poses Problem for Utilities

by Bill Eller | Jun 10, 2022 | EPA, Financial Shock, Infrastructure, Lead in Water, Skilled Labor Gap

You turn on the tap and water comes out. It seems simple, but it isn’t for millions of homes across the country that have lead water service lines and lead plumbing. Lead is a neurotoxin that is especially dangerous to babies and small children, and children in...

Lead Service Lines Highly Impact Low-Income, Minority Households

by Bill Eller | May 13, 2022 | Education, Infrastructure, Lead in Water

The lead water service lines in this country need to be replaced, but replacement programs need to keep low-income homeowners in mind in the planning stages. There are nine million homes in America that get their water through lead water service lines, and lead water...

Lead Service Line Replacement Programs Made More Complex by Incomplete Data

by Bill Eller | Mar 14, 2022 | Inflow & Infiltration, Infrastructure, Intergenerational Communities, Lead in Water, Millennials, Mixed Age Communities, Service Line Responsibilities

We don’t know how many lead service lines remain in service, and estimates vary by the millions. The American Water Works Association estimated that there are more than 6 million lead service lines across the country, but other sources put the number closer to 9...

Infrastructure Bill: Start Planning Now to Obtain Funding for Water Projects

by Bill Eller | Feb 17, 2022 | Education, General Videos, Infrastructure, Knowledge Center, Lead in Water, Videos, Webinars

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, or the bipartisan infrastructure bill, will disseminate billions of dollars to states and local governments for infrastructure projects throughout the country, including the replacement of lead service lines. But how will...

Infrastructure Bill Provides Funds to Replace Lead Water Service Lines

by Bill Eller | Nov 24, 2021 | Education, Infrastructure, Lead in Water, Public-Private Partnerships, Service Line Responsibilities

Local officials have been making the case for years: We need more federal investment in our nation’s water infrastructure – it has shrunk from 63 percent in the 1970s to 9 percent now, and the average age of such infrastructure reached 45 years in 2020. In short,...

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