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7.22.24 campaign for lead free water webinar about DC water’s lead service line (LSL) identification process
On July 22, 2024, the Campaign for Lead Free Water hosted a webinar about DC Water’s LSL identification process. Participants included DC Water (the webinar presenters); DC residents; local and national clean water and environmental justice advocates; representatives from the DC Department of the Environment (DOEE), DC Office of the People’s Counsel (OPC), Office of DC Councilmember for Ward 4 Janeese Lewis George, Office of DC Councilmember for Ward 6 Charles Allen; and Safe Water Engineering.
1.19.24 COMMUNITY coalition MEETING WITH EPA re LEAD-IN-WATER PUBLIC EDUCATION & messaging
On January 19, 2024, a coalition of affected community groups, clean water organizations, and environmental health and justice organizations met with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Water (OW), Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW), and Office of Policy (OP) to discuss our concerns with EPA’s lead-in-water public education and messaging, under the federal Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) and beyond. This meeting centered on our November 20, 2023 letter to EPA about the same topic and oral remarks from eleven members of our coalition.
6.24.21 The EPA Lead and Copper Rule is an Optical Illusion
Under the regulation that is supposed to protect us from lead in water (the Lead and Copper Rule or LCR), Washington DC has excellent water quality. But upon examination, the water utility’s own data is alarming.