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Battle Creek holds public hearing on drinking-water loan plan to replace lead service lines
Summary
The City Commission held a public hearing May 6 on a proposed FY2026 Drinking Water State Revolving Fund project plan to replace confirmed lead service lines and investigate unknown service-line materials; the consultant described roughly $28 million in anticipated costs, a repayment scenario, and the state compliance deadline of 2041.
The Battle Creek City Commission held a public hearing May 6 on a fiscal year 2026 Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) project plan to replace confirmed lead service lines and investigate 871 service lines of unknown material.
The project, presented by Aaron Davenport of Jones & Henry Engineers, would target 3,781 confirmed lead or galvanized service lines that were previously connected to lead. Davenport said the work is required by Michigan’s Lead and Copper Rule and noted the statewide compliance deadline: “All [lead service lines] within the entire state have to be gone by 2041.”
The consultant told the commission the anticipated cost for the program is “just shy of $28,000,000.” He described DWSRF as a state-administered federal program that provides low-interest loans and…
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