Washington, DC

As a Washington, DC resident and EPA employee back in 2004, Elin Warn Betanzo was part of the initial EPA response to the DC Lead Crisis. In 2022 the Council of the District of Columbia asked Safe Water Engineering to provide an independent validation of DC Water’s Lead Service Line Removal Plan. This evaluation identified opportunities to replace 14,000 additional lead service lines, provide filters proactively to all homes with suspected lead service lines to prevent lead exposure during the replacement program, while saving millions of dollars. The reports from this project are presented here. All of these resources have been written or contributed to by Safe Water Engineering.

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A Look at the Real Cost of Removing Lead Service Lines
A Look at the Real Cost of Removing Lead Service Lines

To get this conversation off the ground, and with funding from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Safe Water Engineering prepared a white paper, Deconstructing the Cost of Lead Service Line Replacement, to describe and quantify the cost of bold, large scale lead service line replacement (LSLR) programs that include resident-focused outreach and risk mitigation activities.


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Independent Verification and Validation of the Lead Free DC Lead Service Line Removal Plan
Independent Verification and Validation of the Lead Free DC Lead Service Line Removal Plan

Safe Water Engineering, LLC completed a third-party assessment of DC Water’s Lead Free DC Lead Service Line Replacement Plan (LFDC Plan) to ensure that, as proposed, the plan will achieve both DC Water and the District’s lead water service line replacement goals, including the removal and replacement of all lead water service lines by 2030, prioritization of vulnerable populations in any prioritization model, and fiscal responsibility.

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