Gov. Snyder says action coming on Flint’s water woes

Flint – Flint offers to concern an ifa on how to reduce visibility lead in water amid concerns regarding the city’s water quantity.

In July, Snyder’s office worked with an anonymous corporate donor to distribute the faucet filters through a group of Flint pastors, Snyder spokesman Dave Murray said Tuesday.

Most recently, residents have been enraged to hear about elevated lead levels in kids.

Pastors involved with the giveaway of the filters, which were created to remove total trihalomethanes (TTHM) as well as lead from water, said they accepted the condition that they not discuss the state’s role in securing the equipment, said the Rev. Allen Overton.

Flint’s drinking water has had odor and taste problems since the city, awaiting a hook-up to Lake Huron water expected next year, stopped getting its supply from the Detroit water department in 2014 and switched to the Flint River. The deeper, still waters of the lake contain few of the organic materials found in river water and require a different treatment protocol.

Flint’s ongoing water woes are now associated with an immediate and long-term danger – possible lead poisoning of the city’s children, according to a review of blood-lead level tests by a Hurley Children’s Hospital pediatrician. Though Brad Wurfel, spokesperson at the Department of Environmental Quality, told U.S. News the drinking water met state and federal standards, he acknowledged that the aging water pipes haven’t been maintained in more than 40 years.

“I just fear that if I let him drink it, he’ll get sick”, she said.

An emergency manager appointed by the governor to run Flint during a recent financial crisis chose to put the city on Flint River water.

Ananich also wants the governor to intervene in the city’s water troubles and get Flint reconnected to Detroit’s water system.

Mayor Dayne Walling says he’s talked with Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration about switching to water from the Detroit system.

“During the course of the week or early next week we hopefully will be coming out with more public action steps”, a few of which are already under way, and others to be implemented, Snyder said.

“I take it as a serious issue, the Flint water situation”. “Lead is a serious issue, so again, we’re spending a lot of time and effort looking at this and trying to partner with the people in Flint on that issue”.