FEATURED ARTICLES

• LCRI: A Shift To Mandatory Service Line Replacement Within 10 Years

  Mandatory LSL replacement is a fundamental shift from the LCR in its approach to service line replacement, moving from a trigger-based approach to a mandatory, system-wide replacement mandate.

• Predictive Modeling For Water Main Condition Assessments: M77 Manual Guidance

  By waiting for water mains to break before taking action, utilities risk high, unanticipated costs, public disruption, safety concerns, and loss of community trust. So, what does it look like to move from reactive to proactive when it comes to water main management?

• How Changing Weather Patterns Impact Water Main Leaks And Breaks

  This blog aims to provide utility managers, policymakers, and the public with a detailed understanding of the current state of water main infrastructure and the environmental challenges faced in maintaining these systems.

• Does Lead Have To Exist For Predictive Modeling To Work?

  Using predictive modeling as it relates to identifying the likelihood of lead service lines can feel like a daunting task. Does your water system have to have known lead for predictive modeling to be effective?

• Meet The Policy Experts Guiding BlueConduit's EPA And State Compliance Process

  BlueConduit has a team of national and state policy experts leading our ongoing regulator engagement, internal compliance processes, and technology design to ensure EPA and state-compliant service line inventories.

• Statistically Validating No Lead Or Low Lead For Service Line Inventory Compliance

  Each state’s guidance on the use of statistical analysis (and predictive modeling) varies. Explore the specifics about your state’s guidance to use statistical analysis for no-lead validation and material classification.

• How To Manage Customer-Owned Service Lines For LCRR Compliance

  What can utilities do to convince customers to check the materials on their side of the line? What is the EPA’s expectation or requirement in this regard?

• Making Sense Of GRR For LCRR: How Galvanized Service Lines Factor Into Inventory Requirements

  Many water systems are still tackling the challenge of identifying and compliantly managing galvanized and galvanized-requiring-replacement (GRR) service lines.

• How Predictive Modeling Improves Condition Assessments

  AI-enabled predictive modeling positively impacts four categories: risk mitigation, enhanced decision-making, cost savings, and customer satisfaction.

• How Predictive Modeling Helps You Manage Your Water Mains

  As a water system manager, you know your water system better than anyone. But limited data reduces your ability to make the best decisions on behalf of your customers. That’s where predictive modeling comes in.

• North Carolina Department Of Environmental Quality's LSLI And Predictive Modeling Guidance

  BlueConduit is proud to support North Carolina water systems as they navigate the NCDEQ’s robust statistical methods and predictive modeling guidance to ensure, with the highest possible confidence, compliance with NCDEQ’s guidance and the most efficient identification and removal of lead service lines for all North Carolina communities.

• How Statistical Methods Help Low Lead (And No Lead) Water Systems

  Did you know that the primary value of statistical methods & predictive modeling comes after the initial inventory is created? This is especially true if you believe you have no lead in your system (or have minimal lead) but don’t have records to verify every service line’s material.

• BlueConduit Comments On EPA's Proposed Lead And Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI)

  BlueConduit recently submitted comments to the EPA on the proposed Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI). We are committed to achieving a lead-free drinking water system through evidence-based decision making  and applaud the EPA for establishing a timeline for the replacement of all lead service lines in the United States.

• Revolutionizing Lead Service Line Removal: A Milestone For Detroit's Water Infrastructure

  Detroit, like many other cities across the U.S., has grappled with a silent threat lurking within its aging water infrastructure: lead service lines. Learn why The Detroit Water and Sewage Department partnered with BlueConduit to help make the lead service line inventory and removal process more efficient than ever before.

• What Does LCR/LCRI Compliance Mean, Exactly?

  We talk a lot about ‘compliance’ but the reality is that compliance is complicated and changes over time. This series breaks down compliance requirements across the LCR and the proposed LCRI to help you understand the who, what, and when of compliance.

• Lead And Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) – What They Mean For Water Utilities

  It's time for water systems to start preparing for compliance. Here are some highlights of the proposed changes and how they affect water utilities.

• Representative Samples For LSI: Why The Number Of Inspections Isn't What Matters Most

  Read how machine learning and artificial intelligence allow us to get much more out of the data we collect, finding subtle patterns, capturing complex nuances, and using these to build predictive models.

• When A Representative Sample Of Service Lines Reveals Zero Lead, What Can You Say?

  It’s easy to find evidence for a risk of lead exposure from water service lines. How do we show that there isn’t a meaningful risk of lead in our water system?

• Why We Use AWS For Our Machine Learning Platform At BlueConduit

  Properly deployed, predictive machine learning can bridge gaps, accelerating the work of modernizing our water systems in an explainable manner that makes the best use of our scarce resources.

• How To Identify And Address Bias In Your LSL Inventories

  Understand why it's so important that water systems can recognize and address sources of bias in their lead service line inventory process.