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In April 2014, to save about $5 million in two years, [152] [153] [154] Flint started treating water from the Flint River instead of purchasing Lake Huron water from Detroit. Previously, the Flint River was the backup water source.
Trump was president in 2017, when thousands of Flint residents brought a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Tort Claims Act, and in 2018, when a scathing ...
Sima Gutierrez collects water samples from residents' homes and takes them to the Flint Community Water Lab, where more than 60 high school and college interns have provided free testing for ...
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 ...
The Flint River is a 78.3-mile-long (126.0 km) river in the Flint/Tri-Cities region of Michigan in the United States. The river's headwaters are in Columbiaville in Lapeer County and flows through the counties of Lapeer , Genesee , and Saginaw .
St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan) Paw Paw River; Dowagiac River; Pigeon River (St. Joseph County) Fawn River. Little Fawn River; Prairie River; Rocky River; Portage River (Kalamazoo/St. Joseph counties) Nottawa Creek (also known as Nottawa River) Coldwater River (Branch County) Sauk River; Galien River. South Branch Galien River. Galena River
Ten years ago, the life of every Flint resident took a perilous turn when the city, under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager, began using the Flint River as its municipal water source.
Located along the Flint River, 66 miles (106 km) northwest of Detroit, it is a principal city within the region known as Mid Michigan. [9] [10] At the 2020 census, Flint had a population of 81,252, [5] making it the twelfth-most populous city in Michigan. The Flint metropolitan area is located entirely within Genesee County.