Over 200,000 cases of bottled water have been handed out to residents. “And how they are in a worse place than I am”.
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(Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP).
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality will present its comprehensive testing plan for Flint water to federal officials today based on monitoring hundreds of new sites around the city and mapping all of the system’s lead piping that leached toxic metals into the city’s drinking water supply. Hedman knew about the water contamination, Chaffetz said, but she failed to disclosed the problem.
“When we find those we replace them”, BGMU Communications Manager Christy Twyman said. The water was tested by officials before it got to a filter, and Lurie stressed that the results do not mean officials think there’s a problem with the filters.
“We still have confidence in the filters”, said Mark Durno of the EPA.
In total, 4,924 samples of Flint water have been tested through January 30. Federal rules require that testing be done, but water utility officials are allowed to carry out their tests in ways that allow unsafe amounts of lead to go undetected. “We have a situation where people can not drink the water coming out of the tap”.
The donation of hundreds of thousands of bottles of water from across the country is “unbelievably amazing”, Moore effused, but he said Americans’ generosity doesn’t begin to provide for the 50 gallons of water each of Flint’s 102,000 residents needs for hydration, cooking and hygiene. Flint has reconnected to Detroit’s system for now.
Within a week, the Snyder administration reversed course and confirmed findings that Flint’s water was creating a health threat in old homes with lead pipes or pipes fused with lead solder and corroborated elevated levels of lead in blood in two local ZIP codes.
“My grandson Imirr told me about it. He said Grandma we need to get them some water”, said Pat Million, donated water. “The system is still recovering”.
Rachel Maddow relays breaking news that some new lead tests of tap water in Flint, Michigan homes are still showing extremely high levels, in many case exceeding the capacity of the filters being handed out at relief stations.
The controversy over drinking water in Flint, Michigan intensified after it emerged that purified supplies were imported for state employees.
“Federal financial support thus far has been limited, and we expect that the state and local governments will be responsible for financing the majority of the costs”, S&P said. But he remains the target of criticism, including longshot efforts to recall him from office. “How do you make sure it never happens again and how do you be better and stronger moving forward”, Snyder told the gathering on Friday. He says the funding will provide immediate resources in Flint but is not the end of state assistance.
Rick Snyder has signed into law $28 million in emergency funding to address Flint’s lead-contaminated water crisis.
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Snyder, himself a Republican, said that it would be irresponsible not to act. The following February, an aide sent background information mentioning a Flint-area legislator’s letter to Snyder warning that people “are on the verge of civil unrest”.
