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Article: SYRACUSE'S PIPE DREAM: $2.6 BILLION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE; CITY SUPPORTS PLAN FOR FEDERAL TRUST FUND TO UPDATE AGING WATER AND SEWER SYSTEMS.(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2009
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Byline: Mark Weiner Washington Bureau
Faced with a staggering cost of $2.6 billion to replace Syracuse's crumbling water and sewer pipes, Mayor Matt Driscoll is looking to the federal government for help with the city's biggest infrastructure needs in more than a century.
Driscoll is among those calling for Congress to establish a $10 billion per year national Clean Water Trust Fund that would help America's aging cities address what some view as a looming national crisis.
The trust fund, to be paid for by taxes on industrial water users and those who contribute to water quality problems, would make grants and loans to municipalities in need ...