公用事业公司需要能够预测腐蚀副产物的形成，以防止腐蚀。本文简要介绍了利用指数预测腐蚀和腐蚀副产物形成的问题。描述了一项实验室研究，旨在通过实验确定水化学对腐蚀副产物形成速率的影响。进行了现场试验，试图通过金属试片试验测量潜在腐蚀速率。最后，对一个数据库进行了实地调查，该数据库包含新泽西州环境保护部收集的tap样品的化学分析。在简要介绍了腐蚀副产物的形成之后，作者详细描述了这三项研究中的每一项。作者的结论是，控制饮用水的pH值可以减少铅溶解的驱动力，并导致方解石垢的形成，从而限制铅副产品的形成。 在缺乏足够钙形成水垢的情况下，仅靠pH值调节可能无法防止饮用水中出现颗粒铅。

Utilities need to be able to predict corrosion byproduct formation in order to prevent it. The problem of predicting corrosion and corrosion byproduct formation with indices is briefly presented in this paper. A laboratory study is described which sought to determine experimentally the effect of water chemistry on rates of corrosion byproduct formation. A field experiment was conducted in an attempt to measure the underlying corrosion rate using metal coupon tests. Finally, a field investigation was conducted of a database containing chemical analyses of tap samples collected by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Following a brief introduction to corrosion byproduct formation, the author describes each of the three studies in detail. The author concludes that controlling the pH of drinking water can limit lead byproduct formation by reducing the driving force for lead dissolution and by causing the formation of a calcite scale. In the absence of enough calcium to form scale, pH adjustment alone might not be able to prevent particulate lead from appearing in drinking water.