NEW YORK — After years of dealing with unsanitary wastewater conditions in and outside of their homes, some residents in the predominately African American Black Belt region of Alabama allege the state agency tasked with distributing funds to fix faulty septic systems has been slow to repair tanks and sewage lines.
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According to LeFleur, Alabama is expected to receive up to $1 billion for failing infrastructure in Alabama, partly through President Joe Biden's bipartisan infrastructure bill but the state would need about $3 billion to fix all of their infrastructure issues, according to LeFleur. Mautree Burke, 26, who said she lives on land in rural White Hall, Alabama, that was once used as a campsite for civil rights marches in the 60s, said she hasn't seen any of that aid and is struggling to keep raw sewage from spewing over that same land.
Burke said her family can't afford to pay the $10,000 - $15,000 she estimates it would cost to fix a crack in her 30-plus-year-old septic tank.
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