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Tammy Baldwin: “We're still looking at 25 years before all of these [lead…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Tammy Baldwin Presses EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin On Proposed 90% Cut To Clean Drinking Water Funds

Published | Video Starts at 03:08

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. But We're still looking at 25 years before all of these [lead laterals in Milwaukee] will be replaced. And so I'm wondering with this significant cut, if you've analyzed how it would impact the municipalities ability to replace lead service lines and the pace at which that's going to happen across America. (03:08–03:15)

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Asserts that it will take 25 years to replace all lead laterals in Milwaukee.

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