Flint Finishes Replacing 11,000 Lead Pipes, Concluding Activists’ Decade-Long Effort to Secure Clean Water
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/flint-finishes-replacing-11000-lead-pipes-concluding-activists-decade-long-effort-to-secure-clean-water/
As #Flint struggled with #WaterQuality, it also saw an outbreak of #Legionnaires' disease, leading to the #deaths of at least 12 people & sickening dozens more.
Today, the #EPA states 97% of #lead service lines have been replaced, although last year a federal judge held the city of Flint in #contempt over taking too long to replace some remaining lead pipes.
#law #regulation #EnvironmentalJustice #Michigan #FlintWaterCrisis #Trump
The #FlintWaterCrisis began in 2014, when the city, while under emergency management from the state, switched water sources from the #Detroit Water & Sewerage Dept to the #Flint River as a cost-cutting measure. State ofcls overseeing the switch failed to ensure #corrosion-control measures were taken for the more acidic river #water. #Lead, a #neurotoxin particularly dangerous to #children, leached from aged service lines into the city's water supply as a result.
#Trump #EPA lifts emergency order on #Flint, #Michigan #water
The EPA had been monitoring stricter lead-level standards in Flint's drinking water since 2016.
The order, put in place after the #FlintWaterCrisis, was lifted after federal ofcls said the city has reached compliance with safe #DrinkingWater requirements.
In a statement, EPA Administrator #LeeZeldin called the lifting of the emergency order a major milestone for the city & federal partners.
#law #regulation
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/05/19/flint-water-epa-emergency-order-lead-testing-levels/83727028007/
It's crazy that after 11 years the people of Flint will finally get to see some of the settlement from the lawsuits that were filed.
Too much of the money went to lawyers, but at least the kids and the rest of us will get something. All of it is too crazy for words, and old news for the rest of the world but for folks who lived it, those years are never too far away.
#Flint #Flintwatercrisis
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