
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 21, 1990                   TAG: 9003232628
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

VIRGINIA HAS $5 MILLION FOR BATHROOMS FOR POOR

A $3 million allocation from the Virginia Housing Development Authority has raised to $5 million the amount the state has set aside to put bathrooms in homes of low-income Virginians.

In addition to bathrooms, the money will be used over the next two years to install drain fields and septic tanks and to obtain adequate water supplies for some of the more than 200,000 Virginians who don't have bathrooms in their homes.

Up to $8,500 will be spent on each house to improve plumbing, state officials have estimated. About $5,000 will go toward building a bathroom, about $1,500 for installing a drain field and septic tank, and about $2,000 to provide safe drinking water.

- Associated Press

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