Proactive Lead Service Line (LSL) Management
Manage unknowns for Service Line Inventory and replacement planning using locally-tailored, AI-driven predictive modeling.
Key Features
Empowering utilities with actionable LSL Predictions
BlueConduit’s LSL Predictions delivers the most precise, transparent, and user-friendly lead and GRR likelihood predictions for every service line segment. Our solution minimizes the complexity of handling regulatory demands and relationships, making lead service line (LSL) inventory and replacement management remarkably simple and efficient. Whether you’re just getting started or further along in your data analysis journey, BlueConduit is a community partner you can trust.
Our team of expert data scientists generates lead/GRR likelihood predictions using the most rigorous, academically-based AI and machine learning algorithms, supported by a robust process and the best technology tools available to make their work accessible to every water system. For early customers who’ve done the work to inventory and replace lead service lines (LSL), lead service lines were predicted correctly with >90% success.
Physically verifying the material of every unknown service line is expensive, not just in dollars but also in time, opportunity cost, community disruption, and increased compliance requirements. LSL Predictions customers spend 90-95% less on service line material identification and complete service line material identification in 2-3 months, compared to 3-10+ years for physical verification**
BlueConduit’s expert policy team engages directly with state regulators to understand your state’s unique guidance and advocate on your behalf. Our technology ensures your Service Line Inventory data is fully compliant with EPA and state guidance, ahead of the regulatory deadlines.
Our team of expert data scientists generates lead/GRR likelihood predictions using the most rigorous, academically-based AI and machine learning algorithms, supported by a robust process and the best technology tools available to make their work accessible to every water system. For early customers who’ve done the work to inventory and replace lead service lines (LSL), lead service lines were predicted correctly with >90% success.
Physically verifying the material of every unknown service line is expensive, not just in dollars but also in time, opportunity cost, community disruption, and increased compliance requirements. LSL Predictions customers spend 90-95% less on service line material identification and complete service line material identification in 2-3 months, compared to 3-10+ years for physical verification**
BlueConduit’s expert policy team engages directly with state regulators to understand your state’s unique guidance and advocate on your behalf. Our technology ensures your Service Line Inventory data is fully compliant with EPA and state guidance, ahead of the regulatory deadlines.
Tailored, local models based on unique community analysis
LSL Predictions’ tailored, local models are grounded in our Data Science team’s experience building lead/GRR likelihood predictive models for hundreds of communities, as well as the water system’s internal knowledge and insights, to ensure the highest accuracy predictions without bias. Our team and technology looks at all available data, sometimes hundreds of factors, assessing thousands of models to identify the best-fit model for your community.
Simple, clear written reports
LSL Predictions, supported by BlueConduit’s expert Data Scientists, generates simple, easy to understand reports at every step of the process, supporting full transparency, understanding, and ease of communication and compliance for water systems, regardless of their grounding in data science analytics.
Delivered right into Esri
LSL Predictions delivers inspection lists and predictions directly into the water system’s Esri environment, alongside easy-to-use dashboards and metrics. This enables customers to use predictive data alongside other relevant municipal data sets and to take advantage of Esri functionality for Service Line Inventory. For water systems that do not use Esri, we support delivery in other easy-to-access formats as well.
CASE STUDIES
Real-world solutions, tangible results
See how other cities are utilizing LSL Predictions to efficiently and compliantly identify and replace lead pipes.
case studies
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CASE STUDIES
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, as needed. We can help you standardize and transform your data into a compliant Inventory. For all customers, we also do data reviews for compliance and help you utilize predictions to classify service line materials in your Inventory.
We consider multiple measures of accuracy including recall, precision, confidence interval, and ground truth hit rates, among other model performance metrics. For most customers, depending on the dataset, we are able to deliver our statistical analysis with a 95% confidence level. Learn more about how BlueConduit thinks about accuracy.
Yes, with AI defined as using a computer to do things that a human brain can also do. Specifically, our Data Science team builds machine learning models. We do not currently use artificial neural networks or generative models, such as ChatGPT, for our data science work. Learn more about how we think about and use AI, statistical analysis, and predictive modeling.
It depends on your existing dataset and your state’s guidance. Our models can often generate high confidence predictions with as few as 100-150 representative field verifications. Learn more about our approach to representative sampling.
Yes, based on your state’s specific guidance.
Cost savings are compared to the cost of verifying every service line, assuming an average verification cost of $1,000 per verification, which can include excavation, meter inspections, labor, customer notifications, pitcher/filter kits, etc. Time savings are compared to verifying every service line, assuming the number of verifications for BlueConduit are aligned with MI EGLE’s guidance and statistical best practices.
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