MI seeks U.S. aid in water crisis

Since Wednesday, National Guard members and FEMA have been in the city, dispersing supplies of bottled water and lead filters to citizens.

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Lead is a naturally-occurring metal found deep within the ground.

“Mistrust in government is at a heightened level”, Snyder, a Republican, said in a request dated Thursday and released to The Associated Press.

The state has applied for a federal disaster declaration, which the Obama administration will consider. Even with a filter, she said, she does not feel safe letting her children, ages 17, 8 and 5, use the tap water in her house on Flint’s west side.

The problem began when he appointed an emergency manager who, as a cost-cutting measure, switched the city’s water supply from the clean, safe Detroit system to the Flint River. The city has suffered for more than a year from risky levels of lead in its public water.

Flint returned to the Detroit system in October, after elevated lead levels were discovered in children, and could tap into the new pipeline by summer.

The presence of lead in drinking water is known to cause kidney problems and related issues in adults, but infants and children are subjected to the worst effects. He’s seeking $96 million to fix damaged lead service lines on private property, pay for 90 days of water and a year’s worth of filters and other supplies. A spokeswoman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency told HuffPost on Friday that Snyder’s request was under review.

Weaver said it’s unclear who will be financially responsible for paying household water bills for contaminated water, but the city does not plan to start water shutoffs It is unclear who will be financially responsible for household water bills.

“We believe the Marines and Coast Guard are doing everything they can to bring Kevin and his fellow Marines home safely, and we are grateful to everyone involved in the rescue”, said a family statement distributed by brother-in-law Anthony Kuenzel in St. Louis, Missouri.

But many say his efforts came too late and there have been recent protests calling for Snyder to resign and face charges over negligence allegations – following an independent investigation by Michigan’s Auditor General that found state officials had failed to react to “numerous red flags” since the very early stages of the crisis. The head of the department and his spokesman resigned.

“In 21st-century America, no one should have to fear something as basic as turning on the kitchen faucet”, Schuette said in a statement. He declined to elaborate on the scope of the probe.

The Department of Environmental Quality has acknowledged that it should have required that anti-corrosion chemicals be added to the river water, and that it should have taken complaints more seriously.