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On the recordJanuary 10, 2022
the running costs when you consider the temporary lodging, and the transportation, and the leasing of all the filtering assemblies, and all the other things that we have had to do to clean up the well and the water distribution system, right now the tally is well over $250 million.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Courtney discusses the significant costs incurred for emergency expenditures related to water distribution.

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