Door-to-door inspections in Great Falls for water service line inventory

From January 2025, the City of Great Falls will inspect Inspectors from door to door to the inspection of water services to complete the inventory of the EPA mandated-copper water services.

City Engineering Inspectors will go from door to door

In a press release this week, the city said that in November 2024 the letter of termination was sent to around 6,000 addresses with water services with “unknown” material in the city limits.

The city pursues those who did not answer the letter by giving it from door to door to identify the material type of water service line.

If your address did not receive a letter or not on the inventory of the city of the water service on the website of the city of Great if you do not have to answer and an inspector does not visit your property.

For people with “unknown” materials for water services that have not answered the notice of termination, city inspectors will visit addresses to try to identify the material of the water service line in the building.

The city inspectors apply for to enter or crawl the building in order to see the water traffic border visually to determine the material. These employees will have City of Great Falls IDS with their name and photo.

If nobody answers when the inspector knocks, a door hanger remains of instructions to plan an inspection or to complete the inspection itself and send the information to the city by e -mail.

If you have not received the notification of the “unknown” material type or have already answered the message, you do not have to answer and will not be visited.

Click here to learn more about the EPA lead and copper rule. You can find more information about the revision here.

Further information is available from 406-455-8401 The city's hotline for the city's water service inventory.

City of large waterfalls

(February 22, 2024) Brianna Juneau reports on the continuous efforts of the city of Great Falls to identify and invest the locations of lead, non-lead, galvanized and unknown water services within the city limits. This is due to the proposed revision of the lead and copper rule (LCRI) of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which prescribes the replacement of lead pipes and water pipes by 2035.

Survey in Great Fall for replacement lead pipes

The proposed LCRI is a major progress in the protection of children and adults against the considerable health effects that are exposed to lead in drinking water. These progress is based on science and the existing practices used by drinking water systems.

The city of Great Falls is currently focusing on an inventory of the water services that the EPA is to be completed by October this year.

In 2022, around 10,000 letters were sent to request homeowners to identify the material of their water pipe pipes. You can find more information about testing the material type here.

James Hewett, project manager for civil engineering at Great Falls, said: “Our current federal administration has really placed on removing lead water pipes from anywhere in the USA, not only in Great if, and that's why we get a current.”

At the moment, homeowners don't have to make any major changes. The city is currently waiting for the final revision of the management and copper rule, but when they are adopted, it is the responsibility of the homeowners to replace lead water pipes.

In the city of Great Falls, homeowners are responsible for the water service line from the water capacity on the road to the measuring device in the house. The cost of exchanging lead pipes is the responsibility of the homeowner, which could be up to $ 12,000.

The city is working on securing grants and funds that support home owners for these costs, but for the time being, a change will only be necessary if the proposed revision of the management and the copper rule is adopted.

Further information on the lead and copper rule can be found here. You can find more information about the revision here.

Further information is available from 406-455-8401 The city's hotline for the city's water service inventory.

From the City of Great if:

According to the EPAs, which exceed the revision of lead and copper rule, the city must identify and state the locations of the lines of lead, non-lead, galvanized and unknown water services within the city limits. The city tries hard to create a precise inventory of water services by October 16, 2024 by using the existing asset management software that uses the records of the city and the commitment of the public and citizens. The city maintains records of every “tap” that has been manufactured to a water assistance since 1937. If a tap takes place on a water capacity, this is the time at which a water service line is installed. The city also maintains records from every “re-tap” to a water head; A re-tap is to replace a water services in the same place or the same property as the original tap.

The city can demonstrate that all new water service lines installed in 1970 and all water service lines, which were fully replaced after 1980, are not directed. Therefore, around 10,000 water services in the city that were installed or replaced in front of this data are of unknown material type and have the potential to galvanize.

In July 2022, the city of Great Falls delivered letters to these 10,000 houses and companies that were aimed at the current residents. The letters provided information related to identify the material of the water service line at the point where it enter the building, typically only upstream of the water meter.

Those who have received a letter and do not respond to the efforts of the city will identify their water service material types as “unknown”. The EPA demands that all services with “unknown” material types will be sent a letter from the duties each year from 2025.

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