Residents and businesses of flint michigan would be eligible for payments from a victim compensation fund under a 600 million preliminary settlement announced thursday of.
Flint michigan water 2020.
Gretchen whitmer says an update is expected at the start of 2020 regarding a criminal investigation into the flint water crisis that was one of the worst man made environmental.
The state of michigan must give the city up to 97 million to pay for this work.
Annyjah gibson 11 waits for cars to pull up in a parking lot behind city hall in downtown flint as she helps distribute water in august 2019.
But flint is still.
The state of michigan and other defendants have reached a 600 million settlement in the flint water crisis lawsuit that will provide hundreds of millions in payments to city residents.
The state of michigan is expected to pay about 600 million to victims of the flint water crisis according to two people with knowledge of a major settlement that is set to be announced this week.
Michigan will pay 600 million to compensate flint residents whose health was damaged in the city s lead water scandal.
Under the agreement the city must find and remove flint s lead and galvanized steel water service lines by 2020.
Five years ago lead seeped into the tap water in flint michigan while state and local officials said everything was fine.
This weekend marks the sixth anniversary of the switch in flint s water system a switch that poisoned thousands and took lives.