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Water staff report: lead-service-line inventory shows no lead; city to test schools and childcare sites
Summary
City staff reported that a state-required lead service line inventory found no lead service lines in the city’s sample; staff will use remaining funds and a contractor (120 Water) to sample 56 schools and childcare sites in the first year. The commission received an informational update on federal rule changes and monitoring requirements.
City water staff told the Santa Barbara Water Commission that the city’s Lead Service Line Inventory — required by the Environmental Protection Agency’s revised Lead and Copper Rule — identified no lead service lines in the sample and that staff submitted a non-lead inventory to the State.
Dana Hoffenberg, water resources analyst, said the city asked a consultant (120 Water) and deployed staff to stratify and field‑verify a statistically significant sample of otherwise unknown customer service lines. “We did not find a single instance of customer lead service lines in the city,” Hoffenberg said, and the inventory submitted to the State listed all service lines as non-lead.
Staff said the inventory covered roughly 27,000 service lines in the city and that field crews physically inspected about 1,750 customer-owned service lines in roughly five weeks; staff reported an average of 60 verifications per day and a peak…
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