Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Admits No Plan to Replace Flint Pipes

Snyder wants some of it to be used to replace the money that Flint homeowners are refusing to pay on their water bills. “We’ll be doing more testing this whole weekend and early next week to figure out why and exactly what that means”.

Rachel asked on the show, “If you lived in Flint, would you trust the state government to fix the problem there?”

Earlier on Wednesday, environmental and civil rights groups filed a lawsuit demanding the prompt replacement of all lead pipes at no cost to the Flint community.

David Murray, press secretary for Gov. Rick Snyder’s office, told The Washington Post that one water cooler was stationed beside the drinking fountains on each floor of the Flint State Office Building “to provide an option for the building tenants”.

The river’s water corroded the water pipes, causing lead to contaminate the city’s water.

The lack of corrosion controls caused lead to leach from pipes, joints and fixtures into an unknown number of Flint households beginning in April 2014, when the city began using the Flint River as a temporary cost-cutting move while under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager.

“Appears certain state departments are concerned with Flint’s WQ (water quality)”, Prysby said in the email to Busch.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday urged Gov. Rick Snyder and MI lawmakers to tap the state’s $1 billion in surplus revenue to create a fund for the long-term health and educational needs of Flint children exposed to potential lead poisoning through the city’s water.

After an independent study found an elevated level of lead in the blood of children in the area, Snyder made a decision to switch the water source back to Lake Huron in October 2015.

As details emerge about how officials have known about the tainted water and simply allowed the public to consume it without taking action, newly released documents reveal that the state wasn’t entirely without action – for themselves.

“We are asking a federal court to step in because the people of Flint simply can not rely on the same government agencies that oversaw the destruction of its infrastructure and contamination of its water to address this crisis”, said Dimple Chaudhary, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC).

A majority of residents believe the Governor has mishandled the Flint water crisis but the divide among the races is extreme.

“I think we need to be careful here because while we all have sympathy for what’s happened in Flint, this is primarily a local and state responsibility”, Sen.

Snyder was reviewing the Senate proposal but is “always grateful for support from our federal partners”, Murray said.

Del Toral will testify Tuesday about his reports to superiors and his work on Flint’s water.