Poolesville is proud to participate in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) enhanced Lead and Copper Rule, an important national public health initiative to remove lead from America’s drinking water.
The new rule requires municipalities to conduct a water service line inventory to identify lead service lines. Poolesville has no known lead pipes in the system as our plumbing codes have not included lead as a permitted material prior to the development of the community water system in the 1960’s.
As part of the inventory effort, we have extensively reviewed plumbing records, development plans and the vast majority of Poolesville’s service lines are not lead.
In some of the older homes, predating the community water system, we were unable to determine the type of material that was used. These “unknown” properties will be receiving a letter from the Town explaining that our records did not identify the service line materials. While the likelihood of finding lead is low, we encourage these residents to help us identify the materials.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Townhall.