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What we see is I think 62%
of lead poisoning cases in

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children are from Milwaukee
throughout the whole state.

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You know, the state has
roughly 150,000 lead laterals.

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It's got another 200 and some
thousand likely, you know,

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pipes that we're using lead,
you know, either for sod

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or something else.

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We know that
there's no safe

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level of lead and we have to
put forward the money to get

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rid of all of those.

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There have been
fits and starts.

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I know the that the
city was able to

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get a $30 million grant
and target the places

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where there's kind of the
most kids and the highest,

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you know, lead levels.

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That's a good start, but
that can't be the end

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of our efforts.

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So I'm grateful that
there's some money in the

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state budget for now, right?

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Evers recommended budget,
but even that's not

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enough. We're looking at,
you know, just over 300

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million in the governor's
recommended budget.

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The actual cost
to get rid of

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all those lead laterals
is between two and three

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times that.

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So we're estimating
somewhere, you

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know, between 600 million
and one billion dollars,

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we should be starting
there in the budget.

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We should be putting
in the effort

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to get rid of that lead
in lead laterals once and

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for all so we can focus
on these other areas too.