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Troutdale staff: new federal lead-and-copper rule tightens triggers but city found no lead service lines
Summary
Public Works staff told council the EPA’s revised lead and copper rule lowers the action level and adds community-notification and school/day-care sampling; Troutdale’s inventory found no lead service lines and no unknown-status residential lines, staff said.
Troutdale public works staff told the City Council on Jan. 14, 2025, that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s revised lead and copper rule lowers the action level for lead and adds new monitoring and notification requirements, and that the city’s recent service-line inventory found no lead service lines.
Travis Holton, Troutdale’s public works director and chief engineer, and David Schafer, Water and Streets and Equipment Maintenance Superintendent, briefed the council on federal lead-and-copper rule requirements and what they mean for local monitoring, public notification and compliance. Holton said the rule was finalized in October (year not specified in the staff remarks) and was contemporaneous with the city’s inventory submission to…
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