Monthly Archives: February 2016
Cummings and Lawrence Request Documents—and Answers—From Michigan Governor on Flint Water Crisis
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Brenda Lawrence, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Interior, sent a letter to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder requesting documents regarding the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
Miller Introduces $1 Billion Emergency Supplemental to Replace Flint’s Underground Water Line Infrastructure
U.S. Representative Candice Miller (MI-10) issued the following statement after introducing the Drinking Water Contamination Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2016, which provides $1 billion in emergency funding to replace Flint, Michigan’s underground water line infrastructure
Kildee, Peters Meet with Community Leaders in Flint, Receive Update on Water Crisis
Congressman Dan Kildee and U.S. Senator Gary Peters today met with community leaders from Flint and representatives of various government agencies to receive updates on response efforts to the Flint water crisis
State Using Technology to Identify Lead Pipes and Track Water Resource Distribution in Flint
In an effort to help identify the location of lead pipes and other components of Flint’s water infrastructure, GIS experts from the City of Flint, State of Michigan, the University of Michigan – Flint, and FEMA have translated hundreds of hand-drawn plat maps from the 1980s and hand-written notes on thousands of cards about updates to home plumbing systems into digitized maps. These maps are helping with the response and determine where safe water is needed.
