Lead Service Line Inventory Source Record
A dated, citable record of what official public sources currently say for one named public water system before a board, contractor, or funding handoff.
Read this before anything else. This record documents published sources and nothing beyond them. It contains no address-level pipe material. It does not determine whether a system met a deadline, is compliant, is safe, owes a replacement, or has a complete inventory. It is not legal, medical, or engineering advice.
A citation trail with its age visible
$249 one time
For a consulting engineer, grant administrator, or drinking-water program manager who needs to show what public sources said and when they said it. You supply the system name and identifiers. We check source suitability first, then deliver the record within three business days after scope confirmation. There is no subscription and no renewal.
What is included
- The supplied public water system name and identifiers, restated in the record.
- A source map of official EPA, state, and utility locations checked.
- Public system-level inventory category totals only when a source explicitly publishes them.
- The exact source URL and a retrieval timestamp for every item recorded.
- Published general federal milestone references, clearly labeled as general.
- Every access error, silent source, and coverage limit encountered.
No address or service-location pipe material is copied into the deliverable. No source is paraphrased into a finding it did not make, and a silent source is not filled with an inference.
Official sources and stated scope
The federal layer uses EPA's own published material: EPA Lead and Copper Rule Improvements, EPA LCRI Questions and Answers, EPA Revised Lead and Copper Rule, and EPA LCRI Supporting Materials. The system layer checks the state drinking-water program and the utility's own public inventory page or notice when those sources exist.
The record cites where every statement was found. It does not copy an EPA table or a utility's address list. A source link, retrieval time, and coverage statement travel with each reported system-level total so a later reader can re-check it.
Unknown is a result, not a number
Lead service line inventories must be publicly accessible, but only systems serving more than 50,000 people must post them online. A smaller system may make its inventory available at an office or by mail. An absent web page therefore is not evidence of an absent inventory, an empty category, or a zero count.
When a source is missing, unreachable, or silent on a category, the record uses those words and stops. It never silently broadens a system identifier, merges two similarly named systems, or treats a blocked request as a no-match response.
Federal dates are context, not a system conclusion
October 16, 2024, the initial service line inventory deadline under the Revised Lead and Copper Rule, and November 1, 2027, the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements compliance date, are presented only as general federal milestones. Neither date is a conclusion about the named water system. The record does not assert that a date applied to that system, was met, was missed, or created a particular obligation.
Applicability and follow-up remain with the water system, its primacy agency, and its qualified advisers. This source record is deliberately narrower: it preserves a dated trail to the public material available for review.
How the request works
- Send the system identity. Provide the public water system name and any PWS identifier or state program link you already have.
- Confirm the boundary. We review source suitability and state which sources and system-level fields can be documented, or decline the scope.
- Receive the record. After confirmation, the matching PDF and CSV arrive within three business days with sources, timestamps, results, and limits together.
You remain responsible for every downstream decision. This document is not a substitute for the system's own inventory, the primacy agency's position, or the judgment of an attorney, physician, or licensed engineer. Sources can change after retrieval; the timestamps make the record's age inspectable rather than implied.