LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)—The Division of Setting, Nice Lakes, and Vitality (EGLE) awarded $50 million in grant funding to 612 public college districts and 122 childcare facilities in Michigan to make sure college students can entry clear, lead-free ingesting water.
The grant will reimburse faculties for any purchases made to adjust to the Michigan Filter First legislation, which requires licensed childcare facilities and Okay-12 faculties to filter youngsters’s ingesting water for lead. Childcare facilities should adjust to the brand new legislation by October 2025, and faculties by June 2026.
To take action, faculties and childcare facilities must buy and set up issues corresponding to bottle-filling stations, faucet-mount filters, filtered water pitchers, and substitute cartridges.
Services right here within the Mid-Michigan acquired a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} in funding, corresponding to:
East Lansing Public Faculties$173,840.00Eaton Rapids Public Faculties$24,881.60Grand Ledge Public Faculties$149,179.51Hillsdale Neighborhood Faculties$48,301.31Jackson Public Faculties$52,287.68Lansing Faculty District$614,069.16Potterville Public Faculties$41,378.00St. Johns Public Faculties$6,399.00Waverly Neighborhood Faculties$49,563.23Okemos Public Faculties$93,441.00Northwest Neighborhood Faculties$149,685.00
Do not see your college district or daycare listed? You possibly can search the checklist beneath, and discover extra details about Michigan’s lead testing necessities and techniques at this hyperlink:
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