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Bay City outlines progress, costs and timeline for lead service line replacements
Summary
Water distribution manager Marty Jurish told the City Commission the city has replaced thousands of service lines since 2019, has used DWRF, grant and ARPA funds and expects to need tens of millions more to finish. He outlined tools, priorities and the effect of an EPA requirement that will raise annual replacement targets.
Marty Jurish, Bay City’s water distribution metering manager, told the City Commission on April 21 that the city has replaced roughly 3,000 water services since 2019 and remains on pace to continue replacements but will need more funding to finish the work.
Jurish said the city used a mix of a $5,000,000 DWRF loan and a $3,000,000 grant in 2019, and the previous commission allocated $10,000,000 in ARPA funding for line replacement. He estimated the total cost to finish replacements citywide between $20 million and $30 million and said the $30 million figure would be on the high end.
Why it matters: lead service lines are a public-health issue because they can increase lead concentrations in household water. Jurish described Bay City’s inventory, replacement priorities and tools intended to speed work while reducing surface damage and restoration costs.
Jurish said the city built its inventory from original service logs, card files and field verification and has a GIS layer that shows service status: completed (blue), waiting (green) and needing…
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