Government Officials Could Face Manslaughter Charges In Flint

Flood was brought in to replace Michigan’s attorney general, Bill Schuette, who is tied up defending Governor Rick Snyder and several state departments against lawsuits brought by Flint residents.

A water expert who first raised concerns about lead in Flint’s drinking water dismissed as “contrived” a city official’s suggestion in an email that anti-corrosive phosphates weren’t added to the Flint River because of worries that the chemicals would promote bacterial growth. Snyder also plans to call for $165 million in funding for infrastructure needs across MI in the 2016-17 budget.

Snyder spokeswoman Anna Heaton said Monday that the governor won’t attend because he’s due to present his annual budget proposal that day in MI. As recalled, in April 2014, in an effort to save money, Flint stopped purchasing treated Detroit water and instead began drawing water from the Flint River.

In Flint, Mich., government officials allowed water from the Flint River to corrode the city’s pipes, leaching lead and other toxins into the tap water.

The School District of Beloit is asking the community to take part in a water collection drive for residents in Flint, Michigan. In fact, there are provisions of the Clean Water Act that provide for criminal prosecutions for violations that can result in fines and imprisonment. Both cross-bred dogs are still alive, state veterinarian Dr. James Averill told the Free Press.

News that Gov. Snyder requested that this information not be shared with health officials until after the press conference came from a FOIAed email sent by Henry to a colleague. “These are issues that we need to take head-on, in a positive, constructive way, with solutions”.

Waters said at an informal hearing led by Democratic lawmakers that she was exhausted of people being “nice” in seeking help for Flint.

Kildee is sponsoring the bill, which would help Flint fix and replace lead-contaminated pipes and provide a health and educational support for children poisoned by lead-contaminated water. The system’s pipes still had residual coating of phosphates from the years when they carried water from Detroit, which used corrosion controls, he said.

Snyder and legislators previously directed more than $37 million toward the crisis, including funds for bottled water, filters and services.

The Flint water department “is working to get pressure restored, and water staff will be taking other remedial actions such as flushing and collecting bacteriological samples from around the system”, the statement said. McDaniel says right now, they’re targeting high risk areas – using mapping to find where the lead lines are in combination with data from Hurley Medical Center that shows which households have the highest potential for lead exposure. “This bill simply states that when there are unacceptable levels of lead in people’s drinking water, the public should be immediately told about it. This bill in itself wouldn’t have prevented the crisis in my hometown, but it is a necessary first step to ensure that such an emergency doesn’t happen again”.