EPA regional chief resigns in connection with Flint crisis

On Sept. 26, Muchmore seemed to belittle the situation and local residents, saying, “Now we have the anti everything group turning to the lead content, which is a concern for everyone”.

Mays, her husband and their three young sons have been living with a rationed water supply for a full year. For their unresponsiveness to complaints from citizens, and their inability to adequately clean the water in the first place, many of them deserve to lose their jobs, be investigated and, if necessary, face prosecution. The Boys and Girls Club of Dane County is collecting bottled water and will accept donations at their Todd Drive location just off the beltline from 9:00 a.m.to 5:00 p.m. Thursday and Friday. Gen. Gregory Vadnais, says his troops will now be conducting door-to-door delivery of those items to Flint residents in addition to the water available at five of Flint’s fire stations. They are also collecting water and will accept donations at the Urban League on Park Street and also at Joining Forces for Families on Allied Drive from 9:00 a.m.to 5:00 p.m.

Flint, Michigan, was a sickly town long before residents discovered something toxic in their water.

Still, Demas said she made her decision “with a heavy heart” and apologized to those hurt by Ballenger’s comments “at a time of already considerable anxiety and pain”.

Hanna-Attisha, director of the pediatric residency program at Hurley Medical Center, discovered that the percentage of children in Flint with lead poisoning had doubled in recent years, she told CNN.

Under the direction of a state-appointed emergency manager, Flint, a working class mostly African-American city of 100,000 north of Detroit, switched water supplies to the Flint River in 2014, to save money. Low levels of lead exposure are linked to damage to a child’s blood cells and nervous system, as well as learning disabilities, poor hearing, impaired growth and more. “Today’s bipartisan staff briefing was to learn more details about the Flint Water crisis, specifically what the EPA knew and when, the relationships between EPA and the state, and EPA and the city….” It treats its pipes with anti-corrosive agents – a step Flint reportedly didn’t take when it switched from the Detroit water system to the Flint River system.

“So far, all roads lead to Lansing when it comes to accountability”, Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, who represents the Flint area, said Wednesday. “I tell you what, it’s going to be something like a ghost town”, he says. In it, Mr. Wyant admits, “We made a mistake”.

Michigan National Guard Specialist Lonnie Walker unloads bottled water and filters to distribute to residents, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016 in Flint, Mich. The National Guard, state employees, local authorities and volunteers have been distributing lead tests, filters and bottled water during the city’s drinking water crisis.

Several have filed a class-action suit to invalidate water bills from the city. Nearly immediately after the switch, residents noticed changes in the smell, color and taste of the water coming out of their taps. “Our ongoing tests show that we are absolutely lead free”. “Every neighborhood had high water lead levels. But this community was so organized and so confident about their understanding of the danger that this water posed that they were able to go out and do that”, Chaudhary said.

It’s one of the things we’re looking at and we need to have that in consideration.