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Water tower at the Flint Water Plant. Some water service lines in Flint were installed between 1901 and 1920. [135] As with many other municipalities at the time, all of the service lines from the cast iron water mains to end users' homes were constructed of lead, because it was relatively inexpensive and easy to work. Lead from the pipes can ...
In that time, Michigan started and then stopped providing free bottled water to Flint residents; criminal charges were brought and then dismissed against several officials for deaths suspected of ...
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 ...
A worker completes a new copper water line to a house after lead pipe replacement in Flint, Michigan. ... homes to the city’s drinking water supply were originally supposed to be eliminated over ...
The City of Flint’s water quality is in compliance with all state and federal regulations.” We'll be following this story. Email Carrie.Cochran@Scripps.com with questions or tips.
The reservoir was constructed, originally, as a water supply for Flint, and to move the river through the city more quickly to dilute sewage. [4] By 1967, though, the city purchased its drinking water from the City of Detroit, via a pipeline from Lake Huron, and only used the reservoir as an emergency back-up water supply.
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.
OPINION: Flint, Michigan, residents marked the 10-year anniversary of the water crisis by calling for justice and accountability, and they still don’t trust the water. The post 10 years later ...