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A panel of lawmakers from the Michigan House and Michigan Senate have weeded through testimony from their first hearing on the Flint water crisis.
They pored over an audit of the state Department of Environmental Quality’s drinking water division.
The audit, released a few weeks ago, showed the agency should have been treating Flint’s water with anti-corrosive measures when the city first started pulling water from the Flint River in 2014, but didn’t.
State Representative Ned Canfield, R-Sebawaing, is on the joint committee and says lawmakers owe it to the people of Flint to find some answers.
He says if the drinking water in his community was contaminated with lead he’d be mad too and would file as if the state had let him down.
The committee is tasked with figuring out where missteps took place and to recommend any policy changes to prevent those missteps from happening again.
The committee will hold more hearings including one in Flint.
