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  2. Flint water crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Flint water crisis is a public health crisis that started in 2014 after the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, was contaminated with lead and possibly Legionella bacteria. [2]

  3. 10 years after Flint’s lead water crisis began, a lack of ...

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    The city continued to claim the water was safe, even as a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency manager told the state that the chemistry of the Flint River allowed for contaminants from pipes ...

  4. Key moments in Flint, Michigan’s lead-tainted water crisis

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    A Michigan judge's order dismissing charges against seven people in the Flint water scandal is the latest development in a crisis that started in 2014. April 2014: To save money, Flint begins ...

  5. Flint marks 10 years since water crisis began, but residents ...

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    The switch, which took place April 25, 2014, triggered a cascade of problems with the water quality in Flint. Lead, a neurotoxin, leached from the city's aging pipes and into the water that flowed ...

  6. $25M settlement reached in Flint, Michigan, lead-tainted ...

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    FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A second contractor said Thursday that it has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated water scandal.

  7. Flint River (Michigan) - Wikipedia

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    The water in the Flint River has high levels of chlorides (thought to be the result of, in part, road salt), making it highly corrosive to lead pipes. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Chlorides do not pose a direct threat to fish, wildlife, or humans, but cause problems in that they corrode lead and other metals in piping and plumbing.

  8. Federal judge finds Flint, Michigan, in contempt over lead ...

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    The Flint Water Plant tower is seen, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 in Flint, Mich. A second contractor says it has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint’s lead-contaminated water scandal.

  9. List of Superfund sites in Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Ground water on the site is contaminated with lead, arsenic, cyanide, and 4-methyl-2-pentanone. Private wells downgradient of the plant are contaminated with heavy metals and cyanide. Surface and subsurface soils, groundwater, and sediments in the lagoons and Kalamazoo River were contaminated with VOCs, semi-VOCs, pesticides, PCBs, heavy metals ...