<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Joe Graviss <<a href="mailto:joe@joegraviss.com">joe@joegraviss.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> August 17, 2019 at 3:06:55 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> Joe Graviss <<a href="mailto:joe@joegraviss.com">joe@joegraviss.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>legislative update</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">Hi everybody!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">For
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">95 percent of Kentuckians, clean drinking water is as close as the kitchen or bathroom sink. Except during a rare boil-water advisory, many of us don’t even think twice about
what it took to make this critical utility so dependable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We should, though, because it didn’t happen by accident. It took decades of planning and hard work, billions of dollars and a diligence to make sure every gallon we use meets the
same high standards every single day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">To get a better idea of where we stand, and what more needs to be done, the General Assembly authorized the Public Water and Wastewater System Infrastructure Task Force earlier this
year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">During its first meeting late last month, officials with the state’s Energy and Environment Cabinet gave legislators a good overview of these two systems. A lot has changed over
the past 40 to 50 years, not surprisingly, and much of it can be summed up in one word: consolidation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">In the mid-1970s, for example, there were nearly 2,200 public water suppliers; now, there are 432. They cover nearly all of the state, although there are still pockets, mainly in
Eastern Kentucky and far Western Kentucky, where they have yet to reach.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Kentuckians use about 136 billion gallons of clean water each year, with our homes accounting for three-fourths of that. Overall, each of us uses 75 gallons per day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">That water is filtered at our 213 treatment plants, distributed over 64,000 miles of water lines and stored in 1,800 tanks. This infrastructure has been in place at least a quarter
of a century on average, and 16 percent of waterlines have been in the ground for 50 or more years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">It’s a similar story for our public wastewater systems, which serve about 60 percent of Kentuckians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">At some point, all of this equipment will have to be improved or replaced. The Energy and Environment Cabinet estimates the cost for this work over the next 20 years at $14.5 billion,
and this will come from a mixture of local, state and federal government sources as well as rate payments from customers themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">In recent years, we’ve seen some unfortunate examples of what can happen when there is no clean water available. These public-health crises have occurred in places like Flint, Michigan,
and in our own Martin County. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Back in March, the Public Service Commission opened an investigation into those water utilities that lose a substantial portion of their water before it even arrives at our homes
and businesses. Generally, the goal is to have losses of no more than 15 percent, but some systems are losing twice as much if not more due to such things as leaking lines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">As the cabinet officials noted in their presentation, the need to update all of our water and wastewater systems is not a question of if, but when. The longer we wait, the more
expensive it will be, especially if there is an emergency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">My hope is that this task force will lay the groundwork to properly take on this challenge in the years ahead. It may seem expensive now, but we know the cost of inaction is higher.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">As always, let me know if you have any questions or comments about this issue or any other affecting Kentucky. My email is
</span><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0563C1;background:white"><a href="mailto:joe.graviss@lrc.ky.gov">joe.graviss@lrc.ky.gov</a></span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">,
and the toll-free message line for legislators is 800-372-7181. For those with a hearing impairment, the number is 800-896-0305.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thanks for all you do and holler anytime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Joe Graviss<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">56<sup>th</sup> District Representative<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kentucky House of Representatives<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">P.O. Box 1002<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Versailles, KY 40383<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">859-433-4392<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at it’s best is love correcting everything that stands against love.” Dr. Martin Luther King, August 16, 1967<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">“I believe we can agree that hearing and considering opinions differing from our own is important, and acknowledging the honorable and sincere intentions of our adversaries in advocacy should take precedence
over partisan interests.” </span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Nathaniel Adams-- April 20, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.” </span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Franklin
Delano Roosevelt—June 27, 1936<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion
toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."
</span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Robert F. Kennedy, April 4, 1968.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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