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Flint residents were able to tell state lawmakers Tuesday what it’s been like living with the water crisis.
Tabitha Fenn, who has a special needs child affected by high lead levels, told a joint legislative committee examining the Flint water crisis that more needs to be done to help kids poisoned by lead.
She says the government has failed the people of Flint, but more importantly it failed the kids.
Another Flint resident told the committee had the city’s people been asked if they wanted to use the Flint River as a drinking source, they would have said no.
She says they know about the dead bodies, abandon cars and other things being dumped in the river for last 150 years.
And Nick Custer from Flint told lawmakers, people in the city have some of the highest water bills in the country and the $30 million the state has provided to reimburse residents for their water bills is not enough.
The Joint Committee on the Flint Water Public Health Emergency took nearly six hours of testimony from city and health officials before opening the floor to public comment.
