City of St. Louis Water Division
Niraj S. Patel, Water Commissioner
Niraj S. Patel, Water Commissioner
The City of St. Louis Water Division is aggressively pursuing grant funding to pay for replacement of lead service lines on behalf of the property owners; this program will require applications and have eligibility requirements. At this time, City ordinances do not allow for the replacement of privately owned lead service lines using revenues collected through water rates. The City is developing a zero-interest loan program to assist property owners who choose to replace their lead service lines at their own expense.
Currently, property owners are responsible for replacing service lines, because service lines are owned by the property owner. However, the City of St. Louis has applied for federal funding, through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, to provide financial assistance for qualifying property owners seeking to replace lead service lines. While the City is developing our lead service line replacement plan, we cannot currently give more specific information about this assistance until the plan has been completed and a replacement program to distribute the funding has been implemented.
The City of St. Louis is notifying all customers in the City whose service line either contains lead or whose materials are unknown. To read the full news article, click here. See our answers to frequently asked questions here.
The Lead Service Line public viewer provides information about the private-side material of your water service line. Simply enter the address you want to look up, and the map will show you the material of your service line.
This information is based on the best-available data the City of St. Louis has at this time. The city continually updates its service line data based on current information and records it receives. You can help us improve the map by verifying your service line material on private property. If you have information related to your service line material that is not reflected correctly in our records, please complete the self reporting survey.
Instructions on how to identify your service line material can be found at the top of the survey.
