Zohran Mamdani: “The DEP has now managed to exceed the eight business day…”

“Now we are going to continue to invest about one and a half million dollars per year for basin modernization. We're also going to be speeding up the catch basin cleaning. I'm proud to say The DEP has now managed to exceed the eight business day requirement for catch basin cleaning and is reporting being able to do so within three days of a complaint being filed with the city. Now, from 1910 to 1912, the mayor of Milwaukee, Emil Sila once said, yes, we wanted sewers in the workers homes, but we wanted much, oh so very much more than sewers.” (03:40–03:52)

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