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Public School Leader worried. Emergency funds nearly gone.
Flint, Michigan water problem is not gone
When the lead poisoning problem became known, a school leader took immediate action. He provided students in public schools with bottled water, immediately. The money for the bottled water is running out.
It is August. Will there be funds for clean, lead-free water by September ?
Flint reconnected to the GLWA water system in October 2015 after a 17-month attempt to use the Flint River as the city's water source.
That failed experiment led to the Flint water crisis, which developed after state regulators failed to require the city to treat the river water to make it less corrosive to plumbing and pipes.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/ind...rned_about_flints_fut.html#incart_river_index
August 1, 2017
FLINT, MI -- The federal government says it's prepared to award more than $14 million to Michigan State University to develop and run a lead exposure registry in Flint for the next four years.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced in a news release Tuesday, Aug. 1, that MSU is set to receive the first $3.2-million installment of the funding, part of $170-million approved by Congress and President Obama late last year.
Using a $500,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, planning for the registry has already started, said Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, director of the MSU-Hurley Children's Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/ind...14_million_from_feder.html#incart_river_index
Flint, Michigan water problem is not gone
When the lead poisoning problem became known, a school leader took immediate action. He provided students in public schools with bottled water, immediately. The money for the bottled water is running out.
It is August. Will there be funds for clean, lead-free water by September ?
Flint reconnected to the GLWA water system in October 2015 after a 17-month attempt to use the Flint River as the city's water source.
That failed experiment led to the Flint water crisis, which developed after state regulators failed to require the city to treat the river water to make it less corrosive to plumbing and pipes.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/ind...rned_about_flints_fut.html#incart_river_index
August 1, 2017
FLINT, MI -- The federal government says it's prepared to award more than $14 million to Michigan State University to develop and run a lead exposure registry in Flint for the next four years.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced in a news release Tuesday, Aug. 1, that MSU is set to receive the first $3.2-million installment of the funding, part of $170-million approved by Congress and President Obama late last year.
Using a $500,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, planning for the registry has already started, said Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, director of the MSU-Hurley Children's Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/ind...14_million_from_feder.html#incart_river_index
