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Trailer Park Residents Offered Clean Water

Posted: 11:56 am EDT March 31, 2009Updated: 12:29 pm EDT March 31, 2009

We have new information about a Wayne County, Ind., mobile home park where residents were forced to use water containing high levels of arsenic.

Now we have learned that more than 100 families affected could finally have clean, safe drinking water thanks to a one million dollar grant.

A meeting was held in Richmond Tueday between state and county officials and residents of the Garden City Mobile home park. The meeting almost didn't happen because state leaders wanted to bar a News Center 7 camera from the meeting. We fought to cover this exclusive story and won the right to stay.

During the meeting, officials announced that a $1 million grant could help pay the cost of bringing the city water line into the mobile home park. This would mean that residents would no longer be using well water with high levels of arsenic, however they would have to pay a monthly water bill.

Garden City residents have one month to make a decision.

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