Fighting through an angry chorus outside the House Appropriations Committee room chanting its displeasure over the city’s water crisis, Snyder urged $165 million for Flint, including $37 million to improve safe drinking water efforts.
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Flint stopped using treated water from Detroit and switched to the Flint River in 2014 to save money.
A Michigan Democrat, U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, is sponsoring an emergency bill that would spend $765 million to help Flint fix and replace lead-contaminated pipes and provide a health and educational support for children poisoned by lead-contaminated water.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday easily passed a bill requiring federal environmental regulators to act faster when lead contamination is found in drinking water. The lead pipe replacement is meant to come at no cost to Flint homeowners, though they will have to sign an agreement giving the city access to their property’s water system and open their home to a meter. The challenge now, he said, “is to make sure that the state delivers”.
When a legislator asked about the potential for more federal aid for Flint – Congress is debating the issue – Snyder said: “We could use more help from Washington” but later declined to specify exactly how much. “These are issues that we need to take head-on, in a positive, constructive way, with solutions”.
“What would really satisfy me is if Governor Snyder resigned”. The city says that air and sediment could be in the water pipes because of the low pressure, and people with filters should not flush their systems because any sediment could clog the filters, making them ineffective. The governor says the Detroit schools bailout is a question of pay now, or pay even more later, probably at the expense of all schools.
“We are now designing an optimization plan with the engineering firm that will be presented to the DEQ and upon approval we expect to have it implemented by January 2016”, Croft wrote in his email, adding that according to the DEQ, some cities have taken years to devise such a plan. Democrats said the session was needed after Weaver and other officials were not invited to a GOP-led hearing last week that devolved into partisan accusations over blame for the crisis.
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The governor proposed spending $195 million in Flint in the upcoming budget year. In the meantime, I’m spending my time seeing how we help the residents of Flint, and that goes to the point here of let’s work on food resources and nutrition resources.
