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The city of Wausau

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is on track to replace its

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remaining some 3,000 lead lines

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by the end of 2028.

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That's after already

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replacing about 3,500.

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The city council

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Finance Committee just voted

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to pay 100% of

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the cost for residents.

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And so that's a that's

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a lot of money for

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any individual homeowner.

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Why did the Finance Committee

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decide to go ahead

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and cover that cost?

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Well, when we looked at

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the numbers and we saw

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we started

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lead service line replacements

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in 2024, and we've been

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very aggressive in

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moving forward with this

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with this program.

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Since we've just passed

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the halfway point

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we felt that we were

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we could get as many

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of these lines done

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as quickly as we could

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instead of

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spreading everything out

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until that 2037 deadline.

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We would

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even though the upfront cost

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is more for us

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for the next two years

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we would

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we could

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finish the program by 2028

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saving potentially up to

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$37 million.