Around 80% of the $600 million would allegedly be allocated for residents who were younger than 18 at the time they were exposed to lead.
The state of Michigan has reportedly agreed to a $600 million settlement for tens of thousands of Flint residents who were exposed to lead and other chemicals after the city switched its water supply in a cost-cutting measure that instead created a years-long public health crisis, according to multiple Wednesday night reports.
Flint officials failed to add anti-corrosion controls to the treatment of the Flint River water, according to the, and investigations revealed that lead and other chemicals leached into residents’ drinking water from old pipes in the city’s infrastructure. As a result, residents said the water had a bad taste and smell, and experienced rashes, hair loss and other ailments, while blood tests of some area children in 2015 revealed high levels of lead.reports that some people still use bottled water for bathing, cooking and drinking—despite Flint switching back to Lake Huron water—as distrust in the government remains high.
Around 80% of the $600 million settlement would be allocated for residents who were younger than 18 at the time they were exposed to lead, and more than half of that allocation will be geared towards victims under the age of 6, according to the“We and the other parties are bound by a federal court order to maintain the confidentiality of detailed settlement and mediation communications until we reach a certain point,” Ryan Jarvi, a spokesman for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel,Crucial...
"Knowing the Flint River water was unsafe for public use, distributing it without taking steps to counter its problems, and assuring the public in the meantime that it was safe is conduct that would alert a reasonable person to the likelihood of personal liability," the 6th Circuit of Appeals held in a 2015 decision siding with Flint residents who sought to bring their case against city officials before the Supreme Court. Between 18,000 and 20,000.
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