State board approves petition to recall Snyder

Legislative leaders on Tuesday announced a joint state House and Senate committee to review reports on what happened in Flint and make policy recommendations to avoid a similar crisis in the future.

Children are especially vulnerable to lead poisoning, which could cause developmental problems. More than 23,000 homes were built before 1950, according to Kaufman.

Snyder said 89 percent of water samples collected from “sentinel” sites in Flint measured below the action level of 15 parts per billion for lead, but concerns remain.

Gov. Rick Snyder said the assistance would provide a credit for the estimated portion of residential customers’ utility bills for water that has been or will be used for drinking, cooking or bathing from 2014 until this spring, when officials hope the water is declared safe to drink again without a filter.

Snyder says attorneys need to look over the emails. He said they’ll come soon – but has not given a specific date and time.

“I hear some questions, always from people outside of our city, about why we need to remove these lines”, Weaver said in a February 18 news release.

Metz-Caporusso told public radio she expected five people to come by and give back in the ink-fundraiser after they posted about it on the shop’s Facebook page.

During the news conference Weaver vowed to be vigilant about the ongoing crisis. Kaufman’s team analyzed Flint’s handwritten records, paper maps, and scanned images to create a digital database of lead pipes.

“It’s about a $500,000 project in terms of it involves 30 service line replacements”, he said.

But only 4,376 have been identified so far, illustrating a major hurdle to locating and removing all the pipes at the center of the city’s water crisis.

The state says the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services requested the Assessment of Chemical Exposure from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. His recall petition was approved Monday by the Board of State Canvassers.

Thomson ReutersFile photo of the Flint River is seen flowing thru downtown in Flint, Michigan(Reuters) – Residents of Flint, Michigan, one of the poorest cities in the United States, will get $30 million to help pay their water bills after a lead contamination crisis, under a bill unanimously approved by the Michigan Senate on Tuesday.