Ex-Flint emergency manger declining to testify

The Justice Department has confirmed it is helping the EPA, where one high-ranking official has resigned, and said Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is working with a multi-agency team investigating the lead contamination. Creagh hopes “to be able to say something about the general health of the system come mid-April”.

Philadelphia, which also asks residents to remove the aerator from faucets prior to the test, has launched an investigation into its water testing practices following the toxic water crisis in Flint and the Guardian’s reporting.

Federal officials said that pregnant women and children under six should only drink bottled water. It would have covered children up to age 10.

“I consider myself to be fiscally conservative”, Miller said.

The federal agencies will look into whether criminal charges needed to be filed in the case.

In prepared testimony for a congressional hearing Wednesday, Creagh said the state did not require corrosion treatment after officials noticed elevated lead levels in the city’s water in January 2015. The process also is likely to identify so-called hot spots where more costly remediation, including lead pipe replacement all the way to the tap, may be necessary, officials said.

Water testing kits are being distributed at Flint fire stations and City Hall.

Miller, R-Harrison Township, said in a statement accompanying the text of the proposed legislation that it’s necessary “because of an epic failure of government at every level” that has resulted in unacceptably high levels of lead in the water, and that she recognizes the fiscal issues surrounding such a proposal in Congress.

Among the plaintiffs are Beatrice Boler, a married mother of two from Flint whose family received contaminated water, and Pastor Edwin Anderson and Mrs. Alline Anderson, home owners in Flint who also received contaminated water.

Baltimore law firm Murphy, Falcon & Murphy said that the water was “extraordinarily risky, undrinkable and unusable”, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Aesthetics? A General Motors factory in Flint had to quit using the water because it was corroding metal engine parts, and a hospital quit because the water was damaging its medical instruments!

Actor Michael Keaton told reporters backstage Saturday night at the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles that reporters could have gotten ahead of the water crisis. He said he wants a culture where workers’ “input is valued”. Flint has reconnected to Detroit’s system for now.

Those celebrities join Cher, Eminem, Madonna and other celebrities involved in water donation efforts or who have pledged support to the city.

An unknown number of Flint children and others were exposed to lead poisoning when Flint was under emergency management in 2014. The state has so far allocated $28 million in emergency aid to Flint and faces a flurry of lawsuits. But still, people are using their Amazon Prime accounts to send pallets of bottled water to Flint.

“We test for lead before it goes to the customers”, said Laurie Waldie of the St. Lucie County water utility.