Michigan undertaking plan to determine if Flint water safe

Music President recently sent two unsuspecting drivers from his hometown of Norfolk, Virginia to Flint with a pair of semi-trucks loaded with 2,000 cases of water to assist those in need of clean water in the MI town.

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Besides, Moore said, the damage has already been done. There is no medicine you can send, no doctor or scientist who has any way to undo the harm done to thousands of babies, toddlers and children (not to mention their parents). Michigan’s governor has apologized repeatedly for the state’s role.

“Finger-pointing from outsiders not involved in long-term solutions only serves as a distraction to the ongoing efforts to address problems in Flint”, said Murray, pointing out the “Mission Flint” team started to try and strengthen all issues in the city. “We deserve much better than this”.

FLINT, Mich. (AP) – State Department of Environmental Quality chief Keith Creagh says he has met with an official from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of interagency cooperation addressing the lead-tainted water crisis in Flint.

A federal state of emergency has been declared in Flint due to risky levels of contamination in the water supply. “Every single level of government in this case has failed the people”, says Anjali Waikar, a staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, which is among the groups that filed the lawsuit.

The trouble began in April 2014, when Flint switched its water source from Detroit’s system to the Flint River. Some children’s blood has tested positive for lead, which has been linked to learning disabilities, lower IQ and behavioral problems.

“That is what we know about the history of lead poisoning when you inflict it upon a child”.

“It’s a life sentence”.

It was one of Snyder’s emergency managers-who had unchecked authority over Flint’s local elected officials-that chose to switch the city’s pipes to contaminated water.

The state indicated it will retest the public schools when it has finished replacing water fixtures in the education centers. The plan will monitoring hundreds of new sites around the city and mapping all of the system’s lead piping that leached toxic metals into the city’s drinking water supply. “We look at 20, and 30, and 40 years from now we’ll still be talking about Flint; because we’ve actually had babies who have been poisoned, and whose development will be arrested”, he said.

“It’s time to stand up and recognize that things could have been done differently”, Snyder said before signing the aid legislation.

“We have several large cities that date way back before 1950 in Canada”, Prevost said in a telephone interview.

Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, has not been invited by the Republican-led House committee to testify on Wednesday, but will most certainly be a target of the FBI’s criminal investigation.

For Professor Scorsone at MSU, the overhaul needs to take place at multiple levels of government, which suggests the creation of an agency that coordinates efforts between state and local governments.