No Lead Validation
Made Easy
Manage unknowns and validate “Non-Lead” service lines for your Inventory using locally tailored, statistical methods and reporting.
Key Features
Statistically show the lack of lead in your water system
BlueConduit’s No Lead Validation offers the most accurate, transparent, and easy-to-use No-Lead analysis and report, and removes the headache of managing complex regulatory requirements and relationships.
Classify full system as "Non-Lead"
Using representative sampling and rigorous statistical analysis, we efficiently validate the lack of lead across your full water system and document results & process for your state regulators
Trusted partner in compliance
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.
Major cost and time savings
spend 90-95% less on service line material identification
complete service line material identification in 2-3 months, compared to 3-10+ years for physical verification
Analysis for No Lead Validation is grounded in our Data Science team’s experience building lead likelihood models for hundreds of communities, as well as the water system’s internal knowledge and insights, to ensure the highest accuracy* analysis without bias.
No Lead Validation includes a statistical methods approach, allowing water systems to statistically demonstrate the lack of lead service lines and successfully meet EPA and state compliance requirements for their Service Line Inventory.
In addition to the No Lead Validation report, BlueConduit’s technology, supported by 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.
No Lead Validation 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.
Analysis for No Lead Validation is grounded in our Data Science team’s experience building lead likelihood models for hundreds of communities, as well as the water system’s internal knowledge and insights, to ensure the highest accuracy* analysis without bias.
No Lead Validation includes a statistical methods approach, allowing water systems to statistically demonstrate the lack of lead service lines and successfully meet EPA and state compliance requirements for their Service Line Inventory.
In addition to the No Lead Validation report, BlueConduit’s technology, supported by 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.
No Lead Validation 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.
BlueConduit:
Your trusted partner through every step of your data analysis journey
Whether you’re just getting started or further along in your data analysis journey, BlueConduit is a community partner you can trust.
Megan Schweitz
Lead and Copper Coordinator, Summerville Commissioners of Public Works (CPW)
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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