Flint Water Crisis and Public Water Supply Training
Led by Former EPA Flint Emergency Coordinator

Are you responsible for Safe Drinking Water Act implementation and distributing safe drinking water? This is your ideal training opportunity.

• We provide mission-critical, online drinking water training on the Flint Water Crisis.
  
  
• A preventable crisis that caused devastating harm to a poverty-stricken city.
  
  
• This crisis led to significant human suffering, billions in lawsuits, and criminal involuntary manslaughter charges.
  
  
• The objective of this lead contamination in drinking water training is to provide firsthand insights to help prevent future crises. Visit our Drinking Water Training page to secure your spot today.
  

We also provide advisory services to help resolve drinking water challenges. We work with you to optimize your planning so that you achieve your objectives efficiently. Visit our Safe Drinking Water Act Advisory Assistance section for more details.

Drinking water-related challenges can arise unexpectedly, posing threats to public health and regulatory compliance.

We help you develop proactive strategies to ensure public health is being protected while maintaining regulatory compliance.

One example of how proactive strategies can protect public health and ensure compliance can be seen though the work in Flint.

Real World Example: During the Flint water crisis we (EPA) collaborated with Michigan and Flint to develop a Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) sampling strategy:

• Flint previously received two LCR Monitoring & Reporting (M&R) Violations for failing to collect enough compliance samples.
  
  
• The objectives of this strategy were to ensure Flint continued replacing lead service lines (LSL) at a very high rate from residential homes while still collecting enough LCR compliance samples to avoid a M&R Violation.
  
  
• The challenge? Flint’s high rate of LSL replacements made it difficult to maintain an adequate LCR sampling pool.
  
  
• Our strategy ensured Flint met LCR sampling requirements while continuing high-rate LSL replacements.
  
  
• The Result? Flint avoided further LCR M&R Violations. A win-win for public health and compliance.