Lead Awareness

As part of its Lead in Water Mitigation efforts, Youngstown Water has been collecting data from customers, regarding the type of water service line to their homes (see survey link below).

To aid customers in correctly identifying the material of their service line, Youngstown Water is available to come to your block watch meeting, event, etc., equipped with physical examples of water meters and service line types, lead awareness pamphlets, and Lead Water Service Line Survey Forms.

As part of a comprehensive lead-in-water mitigation effort, Youngstown Water has partnered with Healthy Babies Bright Futures, a nonprofit organization committed to empowering parents to keep their children safe from neurotoxic chemical exposures that harm brain development.

The City of Youngstown won a competitive grant of $15,000 from Healthy Babies Bright Futures’ Bright Cities program, one of just four cities nationwide to do so, and is using the funds to provide “Healthier YOUth” lead awareness kits to homes with babies and young children.

Work is expected to start early next year on a project to remove the lead pipelines supplying water to more than 100 homes on Youngstown’s West Side and replace them with safe, clean copper and ductile iron pipelines.

Allocations of more than $2.2 million from the City’s American Rescue Plan funds will fix this issue on Eddie and Roy streets and Hazelwood Avenue, as well as surrounding homes. All told, approximately 5,840 feet of waterlines will be replaced.