Any systems with lead service lines must develop a lead service line removal plan. Those required actions include consulting with their state agencies on planning and monitoring, and implementation of corrosion control treatment. However, it adds a new “trigger level” of 10 ppb, when water utilities are required to take action. The proposed revisions to the Lead and Copper Rule maintains the action level of 15 ppb for lead in 10% of the tested samples. Proposed Lead and Copper Rule RevisionĬlick here to view our analysis of public comm ents submitted to EPA Childcare centers and schools house young children – who are most vulnerable to harm from lead. This became particularly evident in the case of multi-family housing, daycare centers, and K-12 schools. The Flint water crisis and earlier crisis in Washington DC exposed limitations of the lead testing and monitoring framework under the Lead and Copper Rule. “The federal Lead and Copper Rule is dumb and dangerous… Unless the federal rules are changed, this tragedy will befall other American cities.” – former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (2017)
Rather it is “a trigger for treatment rather than an exposure level.” The Lead and Copper Rule does not directly apply to schools or childcare facilities, unless they are labeled a public water system. There is no safe level of lead in blood of humans, so the 15 ppb action level for public water systems is not a health-based standard. These include system-wide corrosion control treatment, source water monitoring, and ultimately lead service line replacement.
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For all systems, if the monitoring shows that more than 10% of samples taken from high-risk residences exceeds a Lead Action Level of 15 parts per billion (ppb) the water systems must undertake a series of actions. The current Lead and Copper Rule requires public water systems to monitor for lead in drinking water and for large water systems to provide treatment for corrosive water. This action was much-awaited since the Flint water crisis in 2015, and despite giving assurances, the Trump Administration had postponed releasing the draft regulations multiple times (as did the Obama Administration). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the first major revision of the federal Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) since 1991. Lead in drinking water is regulated under a few key federal laws and regulations that include the requirement to use “lead-free” pipe, solder, and flux in water installations through the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) first promulgated in 1991, and various state and local laws focused on lead monitoring and reporting requirements at schools and child care centers and its subsequent revisions.
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