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Greeley Water’s top priority is to provide safe drinking water and protect public health. In recent years, there has been greater national awareness of the potential health risks of lead in drinking water. The water leaving Greeley’s treatment facilities is lead-free. Our water testing confirms that lead does not come from our water supplies or the city’s water transmission pipelines. However, lead may be present in older homes’ plumbing and water service lines. We are working with customers to identify and reduce those risks.
Inspection and Replacement
Greeley's Water & Sewer Department has already replaced all known lead service lines on the public side of the water meter. However, there may still be sections that contain lead on the customer-owned portion of a water service line, or undiscovered historical lead service lines.
In early 2023, Greeley Water began inspecting and replacing customer service lines that may contain or have risk of being impacted by a historical lead service line, at no cost to the homeowner.
Learn the Material of Your Water Service Line
If your water service line is attached to a property built before 1960 and you haven't completed a self-inspection questionnaire yet, we need to hear from you! It takes just a few minutes, and you can save the city hundreds of dollars by answering a few questions about your water service line.
Greeley Water’s top priority is to provide safe drinking water and protect public health. In recent years, there has been greater national awareness of the potential health risks of lead in drinking water. The water leaving Greeley’s treatment facilities is lead-free. Our water testing confirms that lead does not come from our water supplies or the city’s water transmission pipelines. However, lead may be present in older homes’ plumbing and water service lines. We are working with customers to identify and reduce those risks.
Inspection and Replacement
Greeley's Water & Sewer Department has already replaced all known lead service lines on the public side of the water meter. However, there may still be sections that contain lead on the customer-owned portion of a water service line, or undiscovered historical lead service lines.
In early 2023, Greeley Water began inspecting and replacing customer service lines that may contain or have risk of being impacted by a historical lead service line, at no cost to the homeowner.
Learn the Material of Your Water Service Line
If your water service line is attached to a property built before 1960 and you haven't completed a self-inspection questionnaire yet, we need to hear from you! It takes just a few minutes, and you can save the city hundreds of dollars by answering a few questions about your water service line.
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Mid City Corporation submitted a proposal to the City of Greeley to perform potholing operations to help identify the material of water service lines. Potholing involves creating small holes using pressurized water and a vacuum to perform a visual inspection of the water service line.
Mid City Corporation submitted a proposal to the City of Greeley to perform potholing operations to help identify the material of water service lines. Potholing involves creating small holes using pressurized water and a vacuum to perform a visual inspection of the water service line.
Lead piping was sometimes used for the water service lines that connect older homes to the city's water system.
1960-1980
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Lead piping was being phased out and is unlikely to have been used for a home's plumbing or water service line.
Post-1980
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Greeley Plumbing Code banned lead in 1980. Properties built after 1981 in Greeley city limits are unlikely to have lead plumbing or lead water service lines.
Safe Drinking Water Act of 1986
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Amendments to Act prohibited the use of lead pipes and requiring water systems to monitor and reduce lead levels.
Post-1988
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Lead piping ban was implemented statewide in Colorado.
2021 Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR)
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Public water systems must provide an initial service line inventory and notify persons served of known or potential lead service lines by October 16, 2024.
Early 2023
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Greeley Water began inspecting and replacing customer-owned water service lines that were found to contain lead or were galvanized pipe historically downstream of a lead pipe or galvanized requiring replacement (GRR) at no cost to the homeowner.
October 2024 ~ Initial Water Service Line Inventory
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The City of Greeley posts its online water service line inventory at GreeleyCO.gov/LeadProtection. The inventory is helping the City of Greeley plan for the phased replacement of customer-owned water service lines that contain lead.
August 2026 ~ LCRI Rulemaking Hearings
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The Colorado Water Quality Control Commission will finalize the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) that will require water systems to replace lead and galvanized requiring replacement service lines within 10 years and lowering the lead action level to 0.010 mg/L.
LCRI Compliance Date ~ November 1, 2027
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