Tammy Baldwin: “In Milwaukee there are about 70,000 lead laterals.”

“States and local governments around the country use these funds to rapidly scale replacement of lead laterals, of which Wisconsin still has hundreds of thousands that pose risk to health. I wanted to just give give you the example. In Milwaukee there are about 70,000 lead laterals. It's probably a little less now. And there had been replacement at the pace of about 1000 laterals per year. That has increased with investments from the bipartisan infrastructure law to about 3,000 a year.” (02:46–02:53)

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