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Rock Island and Augustana Partner Up

Susanna Kemerling
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WVIK News

The city of Rock Island and Augustana College are teaming up to find lead water pipelines in the city.

Augustana's new president, Andrea Talentino, made her first official appearance on Wednesday to announce the partnership.

"This opportunity also showcases that importance of collaborating with our community partners to do good for the region that's exciting for all of us and a really great example of what high quality education should be."

Susanna Kemerling
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WVIK News
Rock Island Mayor Mike Thoms

Rock Island will work with the college's Upper Mississippi Center for Sustainable Communities to give students opportunities to explore and solve real world issues.

Rock Island Mayor Mike Thoms says the agreement will be a great help for the city.

"And we're glad to have Augustana here in the city of Rock Island, and partner with them on a number of projects and look forward to that in the future, that's for sure. And we have great confidence that Augustana has the resources to complete this project on a timely and professional basis."

Rock Island will use research by Augustana's Upper Mississippi Center for Sustainable Communities to comply with a recent state law requiring the eventual replacement of lead water pipe lines.

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Susanna Kemerling is WVIK Quad Cities NPR's 2022 Fellowship Host/Reporter. She graduated from Northern Illinois University for Media Studies in Communication and spent the last year working as a Teaching Assistant through the graduate program at NIU.
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