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Description: This three-part series for public health professionals covers the importance of addressing lead in drinking water as part of a comprehensive approach to lead poisoning prevention and health equity. We will also discuss the implications and requirements of EPA's new Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) and the opportunities for public health officials to help accelerate full lead service line (LSL) replacement in their communities. Join us for these important conversations, moderated by Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, Executive Director of the Children's Environmental Health Network. This town hall will focus on the importance of addressing lead exposure from all sources, including drinking water, and on one city's Speakers: Amanda Reddy, National Center for Healthy Housing Mona Hanna-Attisha, Michigan State University & Hurley Children’s Hospital Jean Mugulusi, City of Paterson (NJ) Division of Health Joia Jenkins, City of Paterson (NJ) Division of Health Alicia Espinal-Mesa, City of Paterson (NJ) Division of Health See slides, the chat log, and a compiled list of all of the recommended resources and presenters here. Watch the webinar.
Description: Lead service line (LSL) replacement is not a simple task. The LSL Replacement Collaborative has developed an online toolkit to help communities across the United States develop and implement replacement programs and is hosting a series of webinars to address specific topics related to this work. EPA has released the most significant overhaul of the Lead and Copper Rule in two decades. The agency's stated intent for these revisions was to require more water systems to act sooner to reduce lead levels and protect public health, improve transparency and communication, and better protect children and the most at-risk communities. In this webinar we will explore how the rule's revisions will affect water systems' lead service line inventory activities, replacement programs, and stakeholder communications from a range of perspectives. The panel will also discuss the public health and health equity implications of the final rule. The Lead Service Line Replacement Collaborative is not an advocacy organization. Speakers
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Description Lead service line (LSL) replacement is not a simple task. The LSL Replacement Collaborative has developed an online toolkit to help communities across the United States develop and implement replacement programs and is hosting a series of webinars to address specific topics related to this work. This webinar in the Collaborative's series will explore examples of how water systems have worked to engage communities in the development of their LSL replacement plans and in communicating plans to consumers. Water systems and community group representatives from Newark, New Jersey and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania will share examples of how each city gathered community input in the formation of their LSL replacement programs. Each will also speak to the strategies they’re using to communicate about LSL replacement to the public, particularly to reach disadvantaged communities, including partnering with community groups. Speakers
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Description Lead is poisonous and can cause permanent damage to exposed children. There’s no safe level of lead in a child’s body. Lead can get into drinking water when plumbing materials that contain lead corrode. Children may be exposed to lead when drinking, bathing, or playing in contaminated water. The good news is that this exposure is preventable! In this webinar, you’ll learn the steps you can take to protect the children entrusted to your care. In the second webinar in our four-part series on preventing lead exposures in home-based child care, "Lead in Water," Hester Paul, the National Director of Eco-Friendly Child Care, and special guest LaTricea Adams, Founder CEO and President of Black Millennials for Flint, discuss the dangers of lead in drinking water, as well as policies and actions available to child care providers. The webinar draws from the Lead-Safe Toolkit for Home-Based Child Care, a FREE resource offering easy-to-follow steps for determining if lead hazards exist in your home and what to do to reduce these hazards. The Lead-Safe Toolkit for Home-Based Child Care (http://bit.ly/Lead-SafeToolkit) was developed with input from child care professionals and lead prevention experts under the guidance of the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN), Eco-Healthy Child Care, the National Association of Family Child Care (NAFCC), and the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH). Presenters:
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This webinar in the Collaborative's series will explore customer-initiated replacement. An important facet of a comprehensive lead service line (LSL) replacement program is ensuring customers have sufficient incentives to replace their lead pipe. In this webinar, we will feature two public water systems that have proactive programs enabling customers to voluntarily request LSL replacement. These systems have used a variety of tools to encourage LSL replacement, including online, interactive maps; streamlined contractor bidding; waivers of permit fees; grants to subsidize the costs; and education through redevelopment permits. We will also discuss the challenge of balancing participation to minimize health equity disparities. Speakers and Topics:
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A guiding principle of the LSL Replacement Collaborative is that LSL replacement initiatives should address barriers to participation so that consumers served by LSLs can benefit equitably, regardless of income, race, or ethnicity. In this webinar, we will hear about efforts to quantify and define equity issues and about solutions to address them. Speakers and Topics:
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A continuum of steps is often discussed for minimizing lead release during lead service line replacement. Provision of a point of use (POU) filter certified to remove lead as per NSF 53 is one of these steps. In this context it is important to understand the effectiveness of filters. This webinar provides:
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This webinar explores LSL replacement issues for small community water systems and explains the services that the Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) provides to these systems. It is the eighth in the LSL Replacement Collaborative's series and focuses on small community water systems – those that serve less than 10,000 customers – and how they are managing LSLs as part of their asset management program and responding to customer concerns and state requirements. Speakers provide:
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This webinar in the Collaborative's series explores replacing LSLs in early learning environments. Children under the age of six are most at risk from the harmful effects of lead exposure due to their developing brains. As children spend a large portion of their day in early learning environments, such as child care facilities or schools, it is vital to ensure the safety of the drinking water in these facilities. This webinar is the seventh in the LSL Replacement Collaborative's series, and will explore how to address lead in early learning environments, with an emphasis on lead service lines. Speakers will provide:
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Watch the webinar recording. Download the slides. Webinar summary: Webinar provided for ASTDR state department of health grantees receiving funding to implement programs to Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education. The Lead Service Line Replacement Collaborative presented on identifying and replacing lead service lines, followed by two local examples of lead service line replacement programs.
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March 2021
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