According to the Attorney Generals’s office, Bill Schuette with Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton and the Flint Water Investigative Team are going to make a “significant announcement” based on their findings.
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The source of drinking water for the city of Flint was changed from the Detroit River to the Flint River in April 2014.
Flint is slowly making progress on replacing lead service lines, and the city is coating the pipes with anti-corrosives to prevent more lead from leaching into the water.
The investigation is ongoing and more charges are expected, sources said.
“To help support this effort – people are asking about me drinking the water – I filled up a bunch of gallon jugs, so I’m going to drink filtered Flint water from this wonderful home I visited”, Gov. Snyder said.
They promised to follow the evidence wherever it led them.
Oskar Blues Brewery and Ball Corporation teamed up with the CAN’d Aid Foundation to deliver 50,000 cans of drinking water to Flint residents in MI on January 12, 2016.
Charges are expected against two state officials with the state Department of Environmental Quality and a water treatment plant supervisor in Flint, alleging wrongdoing, according to government officials familiar with the investigation who talked to The Associated Press. Washington thinks that the judge was wrong in his decision because the Safe Drinking Water Act doesn’t contain a pre-emptive language which would eventually allow damages to be awarded to those affected as per ABC News.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder claims that the lead-tainted water in Flint is safe for drinking when filtered.
Outside experts have also suggested a link between the river and a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak.
Flint went back to Detroit water in October. That represents a five-fold increase over what the county averaged before. “Plaintiffs’ allegations are addressed by regulations that have been promulgated” by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under federal water law.
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An Associated Press analysis of EPA data found that almost 1,400 water systems serving 3.6 million Americans exceeded the federal lead standard at least once between the start of 2013 and last September. But a survey by the American Water Works Association found that 6.5 million of these pipes are still in use.
