The City of Shreveport has been accepted into EPA's "Get the Lead Out" initiative, which will help the city identify the lead pipes it will have to remove to meet new federal requirements. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The federal government is going to help Shreveport in preparing to meet new EPA mandates requiring the removal of lead water pipes from its infrastructure portfolio. The City of Shreveport has been selected for participation in EPA's "Get the Lead Out" initiative, part of the nationwide effort to find and remove lead pipes in community water systems.
Those plans will start in Shreveport next week with a door-to-door campaign. Communities across the United States are facing new, likely expensive mandates on lead pipes. Cities like Shreveport will have three years to inventory the lead pipes in their systems and 10 years to replace them.
Shreveport's Water and Sewerage Department will conduct a door knocking outreach and field verification effort Nov. 18-22 from 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m., according to a news release.
The campaign is part of the city's efforts to create an inventory of its lead pipelines. "The process is quick and simple! It involves a visual inspection of your water service line to identify the material and ensure accurate community data collection for the inventory," the news release reads. As part of new federal requirements, the city recently sent its initial inventory to EPA which showed.