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• 120Water Announces Four-Part Webinar Series Launching May 2

  120Water, the leading solutions provider for lead reduction and drinking water programs, continues its commitment to providing innovative tools to water professionals with its latest offering, an informative four-part webinar series.

• 120Water Named Cherokee Nation LCR Database Of Record

  Committed to providing program management tools to rural water systems, 120Water has been selected by the Cherokee Nation as its Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) database of record.

• Increasing The Likelihood Of Accessing Infrastructure Funding

  Read how to access LCRR funding and tailor your application to increase your odds of success.

• Smyrna, GA, Gets Ahead Of Lead

  Smyrna, GA saves millions of dollars and becomes the “poster child” of successful LCRR compliance.

• 120Water Recognized As Inaugural Partner At First Lead Pipe Removal Summit At White House

  120Water, the leading solutions provider for lead reduction and drinking water programs, is honored to be an inaugural partner in the new Biden-Harris Get the Lead Out Partnership.

• Updates And Lessons Learned Along The LCRR Journey

  Learn what it takes to build a compliant inventory from water industry experts.

• 120Water Platform Selected To Manage Indiana Lead Service Line Database

  Expanding its track record of providing data management and software solutions to statewide and multistate programs, 120Water’s platform has been selected to manage the lead service line inventories for more than 1,300 water systems across its home state of Indiana.

• Addressing Regulatory Requirements Around Lead And Copper

  In this video, Isaac Pellerin explains how 120Water partners with small, rural utilities to address regulatory requirements around lead and copper. 

• 120Water To Debut PWS Portal At NRWA WaterPro Conference

  Forging a path through the rapidly evolving landscape of Lead and Copper Rule Revision (LCRR) implementation, 120Water, NRWA’s preferred provider for managing lead and drinking water programs, is debuting an update to the way its software manages inventories in direct alignment with EPA recommendations.

• CareSource And Elevate Ventures Invest In Water Quality

  CareSource, a national managed care organization, announces a $1 million investment in 120Water, a digital water solution that helps utilities and state and local agencies manage critical water programs that protect public health. 

• How Thornton, CO Tackled LCR Sampling With 120Water

  When a change in treatment coagulants left the City of Thornton, CO, on an increased monitoring schedule, the water quality team knew they would need outside support to tackle sampling for the 150,000+ residents in their community.

• Environmental Policy Innovation Center Awards Data Prize To 120Water For Lead Service Line Inventory

  120Water, the nation’s leading solutions provider for managing drinking water programs, has been named a winner of the 2022 Water Data Prize awarded by the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), a nonprofit that seeks to spur innovation around lead service line replacement.

• 5 Lessons In Success From Newark’s Lead Service Line Replacement Program

  While they knew they faced a costly uphill battle, Newark city officials funded and launched an aggressive Lead Service Line Replacement Program in 2018. Here are five lessons they learned.

• How Newark, NJ, Remediated Their Lead Service Lines In Under 3 Years

  Newark, NJ city officials launched an aggressive and coordinated Lead Service Line Replacement Program in 2018. Download the case study to learn about unprecedented success in their LSLR program.

• 120Water Announces Newark, NJ, As The First Recipient Of Annual Excellence Award

  120Water, the leading solutions provider for lead program compliance and water quality data management, announced Newark, NJ, as the recipient of their first annual Excellence Award for the completion of its lead service line (LSL) replacement program. Newark partnered with 120Water and engineering firm CDM Smith to locate, replace and remediate nearly 24,000 public and private LSLs in under three years to ensure residents have clean, safe, and reliable drinking water. 

• 120Water Achieves 509% Customer Growth In 2021 As LCRR Compliance Deadlines Loom

  120Water, the leading solutions provider for lead reduction and drinking water compliance programs, saw tremendous customer growth of 509% in 2021, amassing a base of more than 250 water systems across 30 states as utilities took steps to implement the EPA’s new Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR).

• Your End-To-End Solution For LCR Compliance

  The revised Lead and Copper Rule is here, and it brings new challenges for water utilities across the country–who now have to prepare to do more, with less.

• Building Your Plan To Stay Compliant With LCRR

  The Lead and Copper Rule revisions are final and the compliance date is set. Whether you are just starting to build your plan or finalizing your inventory, there’s a lot that will be asked of your system over the next few years.

• Wellington Meets Changing Compliance Requirements While Building Community Trust

  The Town of Wellington has experienced significant growth over the past decade. The utility is working to build trust and exceed resident expectations for their drinking water, with a focus on continuing to meet compliance mandates.

• How-To Guide: Creating Your Service Line Inventory

  Utilities need a strong foundation to create their preliminary inventory, including a clear plan and audits of current data. These steps, combined with modern tools such as predictive modeling, will allow for an efficient creation of the preliminary inventory.

• How To Take Advantage Of Federal Funding For LCRR

  The revised Lead and Copper Rule is here– the clock is ticking, and it’s time to prepare. If you’re feeling uncertain about the contents of the rule, you’re not alone. One major question most utilities have is, “how can we adequately fund the new compliance program requirements under LCRR?”

• A Buyer’s Guide for Water Program Solutions: Best Practices and Checklist for Procurement

  Now more than ever, it’s important to invest in solutions that help you achieve compliance while saving time and money in the long run.

• Create And Validate Your Service Line Inventory

  The Lead Service Line inventory is the first step to Lead and Copper Rule Compliance—and it’s no easy task. The process of locating, recording, and validating material types for your service lines is not only mandatory under the revised Lead and Copper Rule, but it lays the groundwork for future replacement plans as the nation works to get the lead out and protect public health.

• Your All-In-One Solution For LCR Sample Kits And POU Filters

  Water Sample kits and Pitcher/Filter kits are critical elements for various aspects of LCRR to ensure compliance and customer safety. 120Water automates the sampling process, freeing your team to focus where they are needed most.

• Use Predictive Modeling To Accurately Predict Lead Service Line Locations

  Predictive Modeling technology works by analyzing historical and current data to generate a model that helps predict future outcomes, like the location of Lead Service Lines. With Predictive Modeling from 120Water, agencies and water systems leverage existing records to inform our advanced data science. We use machine learning to more cost-effectively generate inventories and best plan for LSL replacements and other regulatory demands.

• Simplify Lead In Schools And Childcare Facilities Management For LCR Compliance

  Establish an accurate inventory of facilities. Allow our team to help consolidate your data, comb through existing records, and develop a detailed sampling plan to easily follow. Our team - composed of former state agency drinking water experts - will provide all the training and resources needed to ensure proper, ecient testing.

• Streamline The Way You Engage With Your Customers

  Communication doesn’t have to be complicated. With 120Water’s suite of customer engagement features you don’t have to think twice about how to promptly and efficiently reach your customers when it matters most. Whether you are sending sampling results, community surveys, or postcards for customer verification campaigns, 120Water can help you manage, track, and automate every customer interaction with ease.

• Better Together: 120Water & GIS

  Get all your systems connected. With 120Water, you have a suite of solutions that work seamlessly within your existing toolset. Trust our state-of-the-art compliance software and expert team to fully integrate your GIS data and ensure that you achieve compliance efficiently and cost-effectively.

• Centralized Data Management And Compliance Reporting

  120Water allows all your tools to work together to efficiently manage your data and simplify your workflows. Everything you need to execute a comprehensive compliance program— sampling, data management, reporting— all lives in one easy-to-use platform purpose built for water professionals.

• Compliance Reimagined: Streamlining The LCR

  Water compliance is complicated, and only becoming more complex. Water systems are under increasing pressure, and the revisions to the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) add more work to what’s already an overflowing plate.

• 120Water Announces Complimentary LCRR Planning Assistance For Water Utilities

  120Water, the nation’s leading solutions provider for managing lead programs, is offering complimentary, individualized planning assistance for water utilities looking to understand the final ruling and assess their readiness to comply with the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) that went into effect on December 16, 2021.

• 120Water Adds Customer Engagement Features And Esri Connector To Help Water Utilities Meet Lead and Copper Rule Revisions

  120Water, the nation’s leading solutions provider for managing lead programs, has introduced a new set of features designed to help water utilities efficiently meet the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) anticipated to go into effect in December and to expand access to clean drinking water as outlined in the $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that became law in November.

• Most Water Systems Unprepared For LCRR 120Water Survey Shows

  The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that passed the House last week provides $15 billion for the replacement of lead service lines in the country’s drinking water system. This funding is coming just in time, as a new survey shows that the majority of water systems are not ready for the sweeping new regulatory changes governing safe drinking water that are expected to begin December 16, 2021, according to 120Water, the nation’s leading solutions provider for managing lead programs.

• LCRR Compliance Pipeline

  The revised Lead and Copper Rule is here– the clock is ticking, and it’s time to prepare. If you’re feeling uncertain about the contents of the rule, you’re not alone. We pored through its pages to create a suggested ten-year timeline of to-dos and best practices to help utilities gear up for the significant challenges ahead.

• Reducing Unknowns: Inventory Validation Techniques

  A Lead Service Line Inventory is the backbone of Lead and Copper Rule compliance. With the revised Rule mandating the creation of an inventory from each water system, finding and documenting Lead Service Lines will set your utility up for future success and help keep your community safe. Once a preliminary inventory has been created through gathering existing data sources or field inspections and employing techniques such as predictive modeling, the next step is validating that data and filling in gaps to ensure the accuracy of records and predictions.

• How-To-Guide: Creating Your Service Line Inventory

  Lead Service Line Management starts with inventorying. Learn how you can set yourself up for success as you begin this process. As it stands now, the revised LCR mandates annual inventory updates and the creation of an LSL Plan. Additionally, replacement activities are tied to concentration levels.

• Lead Service Line Management Decision Tree

  The revised Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) mandates that public water systems conduct and maintain location-based Lead Service Line Inventories, in addition to developing Lead Service Line (LSL) Plans with replacement goals. This is a big project with a lot of moving parts – we’ve broken down the various decisions that will make up this process. Walk through our decision tree to understand what steps your team needs to take at each stage of this process. To dive deeper into launching your inventory, check out this Service Line Inventory Guide.

• Infrastructure Modernized: Employing Digital Solutions To Optimize Water Industry Resources

  The national conversation around infrastructure and water quality has only expanded in the last several years. Thankfully, infrastructure has largely been a bipartisan issue, and it’s become increasingly clear that federal lawmakers are prepared to put significant dollars behind ensuring our country’s water infrastructure is up to date and our drinking water is clean.

• Private Side Inventorying: Tackling The LCRR Challenge

  With the revised Lead and Copper Rule calling for a full Lead Service Line Inventory by October of 2024, water professionals must begin a massive-scale project. No part of the challenge is more daunting than collecting information on private-side service lines–and systems across the nation have a long road ahead of them to get the data needed to succeed in this project.

• Creating Your LSL Inventory Doesn't Have To Be A Puzzle

  As the water industry maneuvers the revised LCR, public water systems may be overwhelmed by gaps in data or lack of historical information needed to build a comprehensive lead service line inventory. Creating and validating inventory will act as the foundation of your compliance program and access to funding resources, so it’s important to get it right.

• As Federal 'War' On Lead Pipes Gains Traction, 120Water Launches Additional Service Line Inventory Management Solutions

  ​120Water announced today the launch of its comprehensive Inventory Management Solution, an expanded offering that will help water systems build and validate their lead service line inventories - a foundational requirement for accessing pending federal infrastructure dollars and complying with new Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR). LCRR requires all public water systems to submit an inventory documenting service line materials for both the private and public side. 

• 120Water Launches New And Enhanced Solutions To Help Utilities Comply With Lead & Copper Rule Revisions

  120Water, a leading digital water platform, has released new capabilities to its platform that are designed to help state regulators and utilities comply with the Lead & Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) recently released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

• The Clock Is Ticking: How To Adopt The Final LCRR With Minimal Disruption

  Now that the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) have been finalized and published in the Federal Register, the clock has started. While the revisions are a major step toward removing lead from our water systems, complying with these revisions will create some significant operational challenges.

• 120Water Forms Advisory Board Of Industry Leaders To Drive Innovation

  120Water, a leading digital water platform, announced the formation of an Advisory Board to provide insight to help 120Water continue innovating solutions and services that will drive growth and add value to customers.

• 120Water’s Digital Water Platform Keeps Utilities Compliant Amidst Massive Lead & Copper Rule Revisions

  Major regulatory changes to the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR)--the first in nearly 30 years--has created an abundance of challenges for state agencies and water systems as they must take on more than ever in order to keep the public safe from drinking water in lead.

• Indiana Wastewater Monitoring Program: Sampling Community Sewersheds For SARS-CoV-2

  A community wastewater system can provide valuable information about public health conditions in an anonymous and rapidly accessible manner. One area where this is especially powerful is infectious diseases, which are shed into wastewater systems. In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the scientific community has rapidly mobilized to determine if wastewater monitoring for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could be detected and quantified in wastewater streams and sludge.

• Compliance Made Clear: A Brief Guide To Navigating The Nuances Of The Revised LCR

  This eBook was originally published in April of 2020, a few months after the proposed revisions to the Lead and Copper Rule were made public. In December 2020, the EPA finalized its long-awaited revisions to the existing Lead and Copper Rule (LCR). The revised rule updates the original 1991 rule, changes the current standards, and adds several new responsibilities for water utilities across the country. In light of the changes, we have updated this eBook to ensure that it’s offering the most relevant content and best practices.

• The Nation’s Most Comprehensive Wastewater Monitoring Study

  120Water™, a digital water platform in use at more than 180,000 sample sites across the nation, completed a sweeping pilot study that monitored wastewater in the state of Indiana for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

• 120Water And PUR® Community Join Forces To Simplify Lead Remediation Programs

  120Water, a digital water platform in use at more than 180,000 sample sites across the nation, has joined forces with PUR Community, a new municipality initiative created by PUR, a Helen of Troy brand specializing in at-home water filtration, to simplify point of use drinking water programs for utilities, municipalities, and facilities, including lead remediation programs.

• COVID-19 Wastewater Testing Trials Yield Key Insights From 120Water, EPA, The Water Research Foundation And Ohio Department Of Health

  Recent trial programs looking at the efficacy of testing wastewater to detect COVID-19 outbreaks have yielded important insights about how this method of testing can be used to improve public health, including providing an early indicator of infection that can be used to trigger advisories and recommendations.