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October 17 – A federal judge orders the city of Flint to choose a long-term water source by October 23, 2017. [67] October 26 – An EPA report finds fault with Michigan's oversight of Flint's drinking water system, placing the most blame with the MDEQ. [68]
Flint built its first water treatment plant (now defunct) in 1917. The city built a second plant in 1952. [2] At the time of Flint's population peak and economic height (when the city was the center of the automobile industry), Flint's plants pumped 100 million gallons (380,000 m 3) of water per day.
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Michigan sued the city of Flint on Wednesday in federal court over Flint's failure to approve a long-term drinking water source for residents. Michigan sued the city of Flint on Wednesday in ...
On April 25, 2014, then-Mayor Dayne Walling and other officials toasted with glasses of water to celebrate switching from Detroit’s water system to the Flint River, part of a cost-cutting move ...
While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
The City of Flint has operated under at least four charters (1855, [1] 1888, [2] 1929, 1974 [3]).The City is currently run under its 2017 [4] charter that gives the city a Strong Mayor form of government.
Getty Images Detroit slang is an ever-evolving dictionary of words and phrases with roots in regional Michigan, the Motown music scene, African-American communities and drug culture, among others.