Michigan to Pay $600 Million to Flint Water Disaster Victims

(Reuters) – The U.S. advise of Michigan has reached a settlement to pay about $600 million to victims of the Flint water crisis, the advise’s prison expert overall and its governor announced on Thursday.

Many of the amount will probably be allocated for young of us who suffered from lead-tainted tapwater after officers switched the metropolis’s water supply six years ago, the advise’s prison expert overall, Dana Nessel, said in an announcement.

The settlement is field to approval by a federal verbalize in Michigan.

In January, the Supreme Court docket let Flint residents pursue a civil rights lawsuit that accused the metropolis and authorities officers of knowingly permitting the water supply to turn into contaminated with lead.

Flint switched its public water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River to reduce costs during a financial crisis. But the corrosive river water prompted lead to leach from pipes, and the metropolis switched reduction to Lake Huron water the next yr.

Extra than 25,000 of us had been harmed by exposure to contaminants in Flint, together with greater than 5,000 young of us younger than 12, court docket recordsdata confirmed as of January.