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Fargo outlines lead service line replacement plan; utility to cover local share with conditional $1,000 customer charge

2519743 · March 3, 2025
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Summary

City water-utility staff presented a federal grant-backed plan to remove roughly 2,100 lead service lines in Fargo, proposing the utility cover the local share while homeowners would face a conditional $1,000 charge that can be waived.

City water-utility staff presented the planned lead service line replacement program and asked the commission to approve program parameters that would use available federal grant funding and low-interest loans to remove lead service lines across neighborhoods primarily in the city’s older core.

Presenters said the current inventory identifies just over 2,100 lead service lines in Fargo, with 44 service lines still listed as unknown. The funding figure presented in the packet…

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