Flint mayor: $25M low-cost loans to help lead pipe removal
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The Associated Press 6:29 a.m. EST March 7, 2016
Flint press conference on lead lines
Flint Mayor Karen Weaver speaks with reporters on Monday, Feb. 22 at Flint City
Hall about the findings of University of Michigan-Flint professor Marty
Kaufman, right, regarding the city's lead service lines that officials believe
have leached into the city's drinking water supply.(Photo: Matthew Dolan)
Flint's mayor says Union Labor Life Insurance Co. has committed to bring $25
million in low-cost loans to help remove lead pipes and improve water quality.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Flint Mayor Karen Weaver said they had a
constructive meeting Thursday on the drinking water crisis. Paul Egan, Detroit
Free
Press
Karen Weaver announced the funding Sunday, saying in a statement the investment
from the labor-owned insurance and investment company "means that we can
move forward to remove more lead lines and renew Flint's infrastructure" amid
the city's crisis with lead-tainted water.
Weaver says the loans will help her Fast Start initiative that's designed to
replace all lead service lines in the city. The first residential lead pipe
removal as part of the program took place Friday.
Water problems in Flint began after the city switched its water supply from
Detroit's system to the Flint River in 2014 to save money.
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