FLINT, Mich. (WNDU) – The Friday announcement from the state of Michigan stating that the state will stop sending bottled water to Flint sent people to distribution centers over the weekend, fearing the bottled water supply will run dry.
The city’s tap water was contaminated with lead after the source switched from Detroit to the Flint River in 2014.
It was a cost-cutting move while the city was under state financial management.
State leaders say testing now shows lead levels are well below lead action levels and have been for nearly two years.
Flint residents are pushing back, insisting it’s just too soon to cut off the bottled water supply.
"This water is not fixed,” said resident L. W. Miller, “They’re saying it is, but it’s not if they’re saying that the levels are high in certain schools, and they’re still want to shut it [the school] down."
"I don’t know what I’m going to do, and this was the only thing that could at least help, you know?” said resident Maria Garland.
“With the bottled water, and then they’re taking it away."
Residents say many pipes still need to be replaced and that the corrosive river water wasn’t properly treated, allowing lead from those pipes to seep into the city’s drinking water.