Flint water crisis: City gets $28 million in state aid

Tests began in the last week in December, and 26 sites out of about 4,000 showed the higher levels.

Given that Flint residents have endured contaminated water and government mishandling since April of 2014, Moore called on state officials and FEMA to help facilitate a temporary move for any Flint resident who wants out into a nearby town until the water system is fixed.

Residents noticed smelly, discolored, dirty-looking water soon after that, only to get assurances from officials that it was safe to drink.

That uncertainty has come to focus on one of the items deemed essential to protecting them: the filters distributed throughout the city to strip lead from their drinking water.

The funding received quick and unanimous approval just over a week after it was proposed by Gov. Rick Snyder.

“It appears the state wasn’t as slow as we first thought in responding 1 / 8to 3 / 8 the Flint Water Crisis”, Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan, said in a statement.

“Please make it a priority for your family and encourage your friends and neighbors to obtain testing kits as well”, the statement says.

During this time, both city and state officials were denying that Flint’s water was unsafe.

Results of recently-tested water samples, released Friday out of Flint, Michigan, show levels of lead so high in some locations that government-issued filtration systems are unable to effectively treat the water.

The top of a water tower at the Flint Water Plant is seen in Flint, Michigan January 13, 2016. She says she yelled “How was your water?”

According to the Detroit Free Press, Prysby said there were only health concerns among the young, elderly and ill if they ingested trihalomethanes over a long period of time: “We’re talking decades”, he said.

They switched the water supply back to Lake Huron one month later.

For example, a filter on a tap that’s a home’s only source for water is going to be used more than a home getting water from other sources.

Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Mich. represents a serious failure of government there and she’s asking residents, businesses and organizations to contribute to the United Way of Genesee County’s “Flint Water Fund”. The state agency monitoring the water quality, works under the auspices of Local Union 517, again Democratic, knew of the worrisome water and did nothing about it. The Federal EPA chief, a Democrat appointed by President Obama, knew of the problem with the water and suppressed the information.

Flint residents said after today’s warnings that they do not feel safe drinking tap water in their own homes.

Along those same lines, Lurie said, children and pregnant women should drink only bottled water.

Senate Democrats were introducing a measure to provide up to $400 million in new federal funding to replace and fix lead-contaminated pipes in Flint.

Snyder said Friday he had “no knowledge of that taking place”. “If you have not had your water tested, get it tested now”.