Create an efficient, data-driven LSL replacement strategy
When it comes to lead service line replacements, it’s hard to know where to start (and expensive to make a mistake).
BlueConduit’s LSL Replacements adds easy-to-use prioritization and planning tools, enriched with additional critical datasets, atop your LSL predictions, enabling you to create dynamic, data-driven, compliant replacement strategies based on your unique needs.
Why BlueConduit?
Benefits of BlueConduit’s LSL Replacements solution
Built in Esri
Plan for LSL replacements right in your data source-of-truth & integrated with other relevant datasets
Automated tools
Make prioritization and replacement location grouping a breeze with automated tools that do the hard work for you
Predictions enriched with critical datasets
Easily view LCRI-required presence of children data, environmental justice index, and more alongside your predictions to identify LSL replacement hot spots
Prioritize LSLs for replacement
Generate a prioritized list of LSLs based on multiple factors, weighted to your needs
Group replacements for planning
Aggregate replacements to the street, block, or neighborhood level to identify most critical locations to target for replacements
Track & report on prioritization strategy
Simply explain and track progress on your prioritization strategy
How it Works
You will begin with a view of your service line inventory data, including lead likelihood predictions from the LSL Predictions solution.
Explore critical replacement datasets including LCRI-required impacted populations (presence of children and environmental justice index), city council districts, schools, and more to create prioritized replacement lists, with the ability to adjust how different factors are weighted in the prioritization process.
To ensure efficiency in LSL replacements, aggregate your prioritization by street, block, neighborhood, and select where you’d like to begin.
Easily export your selections into asset management tools.
Utilize simple replacement strategy language and interactive dashboards to communicate your strategy to stakeholders and track progress once replacements begin.
You will begin with a view of your service line inventory data, including lead likelihood predictions from the LSL Predictions solution.
Explore critical replacement datasets including LCRI-required impacted populations (presence of children and environmental justice index), city council districts, schools, and more to create prioritized replacement lists, with the ability to adjust how different factors are weighted in the prioritization process.
To ensure efficiency in LSL replacements, aggregate your prioritization by street, block, neighborhood, and select where you’d like to begin.
Easily export your selections into asset management tools.
Utilize simple replacement strategy language and interactive dashboards to communicate your strategy to stakeholders and track progress once replacements begin.
Stay ahead in LSL replacements
Don’t miss out on expert insights, practical tips, and the latest updates on lead service line replacements. Our email series covers everything you need to know, from funding opportunities to best practices for compliance and safety.
Stay informed, stay compliant, and protect your community’s water supply.
case studies
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) go into effect in 2027 and require the identification and replacement of all lead and galvanized-requiring-replacement service lines on a 10 year timeline.
LSL Replacements helps you create a replacement prioritization strategy, which is a critical component of a LCRI-compliant replacement plan. We’re continuing to add additional functionality to our products to support all aspects of LCRI-compliant replacement plans; stay tuned for product updates in 2025. You can learn more about the LCRI requirements for replacement plans here (link).
Yes. As required by the LCRI, LSL Replacements incorporates presence of children, environmental justice index, and other relevant datasets into the replacement prioritization process.
LSL Replacements uses your known service line materials, as well as lead likelihood predictions from LSL Predictions, as the starting point for replacement prioritization. When you complete service line replacements and update your data, the new data dynamically updates your remaining lead likelihood predictions, which then automatically adjusts your prioritized replacement lists. And don’t worry – we make sure it is easy to see changes and track to your original plan.
BlueConduit has been focused on LSL replacement from the start; our initial work in Flint (link) was focused on generating and using lead likelihood predictions in order to create a prioritized, efficient LSL replacement plan. We are excited to add more robust replacement tools and products to our portfolio. Still not convinced? Hear about our solutions directly from our partners (link).
LSL Replacements is typically purchased as an add-on to LSL Predictions, as it relies on known or predicted service line materials in the replacement prioritization process. However, if you are a water system with all service line materials classified in your LCRR-compliant inventory (in other words, no outstanding unknowns), you can purchase and use LSL Replacements as a standalone product.
Ready to get the lead out?
Connect with BlueConduit today to set up a personalized consultation.
Replace LSLs efficiently and accurately
Lead service line replacements are difficult to prioritize and plan, and more expensive if you keep digging in the wrong places.
BlueConduit’s LSL Predictions solution accurately identifies your SLs most likely to be lead, enabling data-driven replacement planning, accurate digs, and customer trust in your process.
Why BlueConduit?
Benefits of replacement planning using BlueConduit’s predictive technology
Minimize unknowns
Compliantly classify unknowns based on state compliance requirements and threshold guidance from expert Data Scientists.
LCRI policy expertise
Lean on BlueConduit experts to understand LCRI rules and ensure compliant replacement planning and implementation.
Accurate predictions
BlueConduit customers report a >90% ground truth accuracy rate for lead likelihood predictions.
Simplified customer communications
Easily and transparently communicate decision making criteria to build public trust.
Easy to use Esri integration
Engage with predictive data and BlueConduit technology tools in your existing Esri environment.
How it Works
BlueConduit reviews your existing service line inventory data.
Based on your data and stakeholder communications, BlueConduit’s Data Scientists recommend a series of representative physical verifications needed for high-accuracy statistical analysis.
Based on the results of your field verifications as well as your existing data, the LSL Predictions technology generates lead likelihood predictions for all unknown service lines. Our Data Science team quality checks your results at every step to ensure the highest quality predictions.
Based on your unique dataset, priorities, and community needs, our Data Scientists partner with your team to group your predictions into 3 categories: high, medium, and low likelihood of lead.
Guided by our lead service line predictions and your unique high/medium/low lead likelihood thresholds, you can being planning and carrying out LSL replacements. As your work continues, the predictive model integrates new information into the model and updates your predictions.
BlueConduit reviews your existing service line inventory data.
Based on your data and stakeholder communications, BlueConduit’s Data Scientists recommend a series of representative physical verifications needed for high-accuracy statistical analysis.
Based on the results of your field verifications as well as your existing data, the LSL Predictions technology generates lead likelihood predictions for all unknown service lines. Our Data Science team quality checks your results at every step to ensure the highest quality predictions.
Based on your unique dataset, priorities, and community needs, our Data Scientists partner with your team to group your predictions into 3 categories: high, medium, and low likelihood of lead.
Guided by our lead service line predictions and your unique high/medium/low lead likelihood thresholds, you can being planning and carrying out LSL replacements. As your work continues, the predictive model integrates new information into the model and updates your predictions.
Stay ahead in LSL replacements
Don’t miss out on expert insights, practical tips, and the latest updates on lead service line replacements. Our email series covers everything you need to know, from funding opportunities to best practices for compliance and safety.
Stay informed, stay compliant, and protect your community’s water supply.
Testimonials
Bryan Peckinpaugh
Public Affairs Director for the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
Ready for the experts to support your replacement planning and prioritization?
Reach out to BlueConduit and start the conversation today.
Plan
Easily export prioritized, selected list to:
- CSV
- Integrations and APIs with asset management tools [coming 2025]
- Integrations and APIs with BI tools [coming 2025]
