Individual Modules for 3Ts

EPA's 3Ts - Training, Testing, and Taking Action - provides tools and outreach materials to schools, child care facilities, states, and water systems, to implement a voluntary testing and remediation programs to reduce lead in drinking water.

The 3Ts toolkit has seven modules. Click on the following links to explore each module. The modules of the 3Ts toolkit were developed to provide base components from the 3Ts manual. For supplemental information please visit the 3Ts homepage.

• 3Ts Module 1: Communication (pdf) (319.52 KB, 2018)
  This module will help you develop your communication plan to: 1) Get your team together; 2) Create a contact list; 3) Identify your target audiences; 4) Know your methods of communication; 5) Identify times for communicating; 6) Start communicating.
• 3Ts Module 2: Learning about Lead (pdf) (378.84 KB, 2018)
  This module will help you to learn about: 1) Health effects of lead; 2) Sources of lead; 3) How lead gets into drinking water; 4) Your facility and the public water system relationship; 5) How lead in drinking water is regulated.
• 3Ts Module 3: Planning Your 3Ts Program (pdf) (393.27 KB, 2018)
  This module will help you to: 1) Review your records; 2) Establish partnerships; 3) Assign role.
• 3Ts Module 4: Developing a Sampling Plan (pdf) (427.96 KB, 2018)
  This module will help you to: 1) Conduct a walkthrough; 2) Determine sampling locations; 3) Select a laboratory for sample analysis; 4) Determine your sampling frequency; 5) Understand the sampling procedures.
• 3Ts Module 5: Conducting Sampling and Interpreting Results (pdf) (346.36 KB, 2018)
  This module will help you with your sampling procedures to ensure valid results: 1) Sampling at the tap; 2) Sampling do's and don'ts.
• 3Ts Module 6: Remediation and Establishing Routine Practices (pdf) (395.56 KB, 2018)
  This module will help you consider actions to take following the receipt of sample results: 1) Immediate response; 2) Short-term control measures; 3) Permanent control measures; 4) Follow-up sampling; 5) Considerations for replacement activities; 6) Establishing routine practices.
• 3Ts Module 7: Recordkeeping (pdf) (228.4 KB, 2018)
  This module will help you develop and maintain your recordkeeping and includes recordkeeping templates and customizable forms.