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Windsor to submit lead service-line inventory with many unknowns; PFAS and lead testing increase costs
Summary
Streets & Water Supt. David Decker said the village will file a lead service-line inventory by Oct. 16 but that many service-line materials remain unknown because staff lack time and funds to excavate lines; recent PFAS, lead and copper sampling will raise testing costs.
Streets & Water Superintendent David Decker told the Village of Windsor board on Oct. 3 that the village will submit its lead service-line inventory to the state by Oct. 16 but that the report will include numerous "unknowns" because the village lacks time and money to excavate and visually confirm each service line material.
"We do not have the time nor the money to dig up every service line," Decker told trustees, and he said the village will file the inventory on time with those limitations noted. He added the village cannot determine the material from the curb stop to the home without excavation.
Decker also reported a month of large water samples, including tests for PFAS, lead and copper, and said the Microbac testing bill for those samples will be significant; the minutes do not specify the dollar amount. He said crews repaired a leak on Red Harvest and plan to coordinate paving of that spot with a separate rail-station repair so both can be paved together.
The inventory deadline and the recent testing work may affect near-term operations and budget planning for the village's water system; trustees were briefed but did not take separate action on the report at the meeting.
