The beginnings of the lead problem can be traced to shortly after april 25 2014 when former flint mayor dayne walling flipped a switch moving the city s water supply from detroit to its own.
Flint michigan water problem started.
In 2014 the city switched from detroit s water system to the flint river setting the stage for a crisis that sickened residents and.
Flint michigan changed its water system in 2014 resulting in water so toxic that residents got sick.
Michigan radio reaches out to the mdeq for comment about the memo and spokesman brad wurfel says let me start here anyone who is concerned about lead in the drinking water in flint can relax.
But that flip of a switch isn t when the city s water crisis began.
April 25th 2014 improperly treated water from the flint river started passing through flint michigan s pipes.
The flint water crisis is a public health crisis that started in 2014 after the drinking water source for the city of flint michigan was contaminated.
Now 5 years later flint is moving beyond its crisis.
Water from the flint river flows through the hamilton dam.
On april 25 2014 officials from flint michigan switched the city s water supply to the flint river as a cost cutting measure for the struggling city.
In doing so they unwittingly introduced.
Though some city residents are having trouble still.
A story of environmental injustice and bad decision making the water crisis in flint michigan began in 2014 when the city switched its drinking water supply from detroit s system to the.
Slow to acknowledge the problem and glacial in response once it had the state of michigan has finally begun to treat flint s water crisis as the public health catastrophe that it is.