Additional $28 Million To Go To Flint

Samples taken from 26 locations since December registered lead levels above 150 parts per billion – the threshold filters, which are being to distributed to residents by emergency responders, are rated to safely remove the contaminant. “They’ve also received or are eligible to receive filters and water test kits”.

Emails released by a liberal group critical of Snyder show the state was providing water coolers at a state building in Flint as far back as January 2015, though residents were told the tap water was safe to drink until last fall. Gov. Rick Snyder announced he’d give $1 million in water filters to residents, and police officers and pastors have been traveling door to door to distribute them, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Organizations in Pitt and Wilson counties are teaming up to bring more fresh water to Flint Michigan. “We encourage all residents to get a water testing kit”. Experts have voiced some concern about the use of home water filter devices because the filters need to replaced on a regular basis.

Lurie said that the United States Department of Agriculture has approved a request for additional money so that Flint schools can purchase and serve foods high in calcium, iron and Vitamin C in response to potential lead exposure in Flint children.

District engineer Mike Prysby echoed this guidance at a city hall meeting a few weeks later, when he, alongside EPA representatives and a Michigan State University microbiologist, attributed the water’s discoloration to iron and calcium – not lead – from old city pipes. He filled two children’s cups with water: the first “straight from the tap with un-pure Flint“, the next with water passed through a faucet filter from a nearby water distribution station.

Federal legislators who represent Flint said this week that they would introduce legislation to spend up to $400 million in federal funds on fixing the city’s infrastructure provided the funds are matched by the state.

Presently, residents are still expected to pay their monthly water bill despite the fact that the water is contaminated with lead, E.coli and Legionnaires’ disease.

In this day and age, it is an abomination that a town of 100,000 people have had to rely on bottled water for drinking, bathing, and cooking for months.

They say that given other issues with the water — boil-water advisories, high levels of a disinfectant byproduct, complaints about smell and taste, and a General Motors plant’s decision to no longer use it because of rust — it is unlikely that Snyder did not know earlier about its potential risks.

A state legislative leader from Flint says the suggestion that the public also could drink from the water coolers is “insulting”.

Tisdahl said if given an opportunity she’d share Evanston’s drinking water with the people in Flint.

For more information on lead in water, contact the U.S. EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791.

Flint switched its water source from Detroit to the Flint River in April 2014, which is now known to have caused lead to leach into the city’s tap water. FOX59 teamed up with local partners to put on a water for Flint campaign to assist those people living without clean drinking water.