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Utility board OKs $100,000 mapping contract to comply with EPA lead‑and‑copper rule revisions
Summary
The Weatherford Municipal Utility Board authorized a professional services contract up to $100,000 with Yellow Rose Mapping LLC to help build the city's lead service line inventory and communications plan required under recent EPA lead and copper rule revisions.
Rick Schaffer, the city's Water Utilities presenter, told the Municipal Utility Board that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's updated Lead and Copper Rule revisions (LCRR/LCRI) require utilities to inventory and, over time, replace all lead and galvanized service lines and to expand sampling and communications efforts.
"The initial compliance date is October of this year," Schaffer said, describing new requirements that include a lead service line inventory (LSLI), a communications plan, increased sampling frequency until lines are removed, and testing of…
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