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As your constituent, I strongly urge you to pass the Drinking Water Supplementals for FY19
I am writing you today because Michigan’s drinking water is being threatened on multiple fronts. There are 1.5 million people in Michigan who have been drinking water contaminated with PFAS. There are children who cannot drink from their school water fountains because of high levels of lead. The state needs to be allocating significant additional funds to address current drinking water contamination and aging infrastructure. That is why I am encouraging you to pass both Drinking Water Supplementals for the fiscal year of 2019. When taken together, the supplementals would provide $180 million in one-time general fund dollars towards safe drinking water programs. The Drinking Water Supplementals provide the following: $61.5 million to the school aid fund for hydration stations. These are filtered water-bottle filling stations that are effective at greatly reducing lead levels in water. Some stations could also have granulated activated carbon filtration which can help filter out "long chain" PFAS. $37.5 million for Lead and Copper Rule implementation. This would go in part towards replacing lead pipes which carry water into the homes of many Michiganders across the state. $30 million for PFAS remediation and addressing PFAS in the public water supplies. $40 million for drinking water revolving fund loan assistance to help local governments invest in needed upgrades to aging drinking water infrastructure. $7.5 million for asset management planning so that local governments have a full idea of what their existing water infrastructure is and can better prioritize funding to maintain and repair that infrastructure. $5 million to support water system optimization to ensure that water systems are in excellent operating condition at all times. Drinking water problems will continue to arise unless the State of Michigan fully marshals the funding resources needed to tackle the scale of the challenge. This one-time general fund investment is a critical first step. The longer we wait to address drinking water funding shortfalls the worse the situation becomes. As your constituent, I strongly urge you to pass this proposal.
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