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From our most recent mailers, MAWC has received about 70 images, but if last year is a guide, they will continue to come in through the end of the year, even though all the mailers hit the post office before the deadline of Nov. 14. Customers also email us photos, and the aforementioned service technician visits also are prompted by the mailers. While it’s difficult to track all three contact methods in real time, MAWC has been able to receive more than the few data points mentioned above to improve the our inventory. Together with ongoing service line inspections, we have submitted about 3,000 data points to our statistical modeling contractor annually. Since we have just under 124,000 active service connections, the data received may not seem like a lot, but the EPA has packed powerful incentives for improving your inventory into the LCRR and the improvements, or LCRI. Properly classified lines will help if there is an action level exceedance or ALE, since the replacement percentage will be calculated based on total lead, plus galvanized requiring replacement and unknowns. Also, under the LCRI, utilities will have until 2037 to replace lead and galvanized requiring replacement. A three-year rolling average of 10 percent will have to be met by 2030. That percentage is likewise calculated by total lead, plus galvanized requiring replacement and unknowns, divided by 10. Discovering that an unknown is not lead gives a utility no credit towards reaching that rolling average, or in replacements in the case of an ALE. So, improved and more accurate service line inventories can reduce the divisor in these two percentage calculations, and ease compliance. The LCRI is under court challenge, but is scheduled to take effect Nov. 1 of 2027. For Illustration purposes, please use the cover image (first panel) of this: https:// www.mawc.org/sites/default/files/2024-10/ unknown_compressed.pdf Here are the galvanized and lead mailers if you want to use some of that: • https://www.mawc.org/sites/default/ files/2024-10/galvanized_compressed. pdf • https://www.mawc.org/sites/default/ files/2024-10/postcard_c_lead_print_ v2_final.pdf See press releases below for more information on our lead communications: • https://www.mawc.org/sites/ default/files/2025-11/11.19.25_lcrr_ newsletter_presser.pdf • https://www.mawc.org/sites/default/ files/2024-11/11.15.24_lcrr_presser. pdf. S Warrington, PA 215-343-5700 Malvern, PA 610-489-5100 Easton, PA 610-989-4940 King of Prussia, PA 610-572-7093 CONTACT US TODAY: Proudly Serving Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Since 1973! Scan me! Water & Wastewater Treatment Plant Design Arsenic Removal • Biological Nutrient Removal Iron & Manganese Removal Distribution & Collection Systems Pumping Stations Storage Facilities • Act 537 Plans Chapter 94 Reports • TMDL Reports Infiltration & Inflow Studies Construction Administration & Observation Drone Services • Grant Services OUR SERVICES: MAWC article continued from page 19.