Flint residents have fear, distrust as state closes two free water sites

That site closes today.
She has been living in this home for six months and gets cases of water from many different PODs, normally, 15 cases, once a week.
Moore has six cases of bottled water delivered to her door once a week, but gets bottled water from free distribution sites twice a week to garner the other six cases of the 12 total she uses every seven days.
On her 24th birthday, Tiondra Green, top left, places a case of bottled water onto the back of a pickup truck as her co-workers form a line to hand off cases of water efficiently on Friday, Aug. 11, at Calvary Missionary Baptist Church on Flint’s north side, which is one of two water distribution sites that the state is closing after 5 p.m. today.
Anticipating that free bottled water distribution will eventually end in Flint, Ellis Haley and his family have gathered extra, picking it up twice a week from two different locations, including a distribution point at Saint Mark’s Missionary Baptist Church, which closes today.
The POD closes Friday.
He worries that as PODs close in Flint over the next month, city residents will crowd those that remain open.
"It is going to be kind of hard for us to trust the city telling us the water is safe now.
William Holden, 90, prepares fishing rods for his great-grandsons at his home on the 4600 block of Billings Street in Flint on Wednesday, Aug. 9.
Holden picks up five cases of water, 1-2 times a week for him and his wife, Mamie Holden, 91, for drinking.

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