FLINT, Mich. (AP) – The latest on the lead-contaminated drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan (all times local):
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Michigan’s top environmental regulator says the state should have required the city of Flint to treat its water for corrosion after elevated lead levels were first discovered in the city’s water a year ago.
Keith Creagh, director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, says the state did not require corrosion treatment after officials noticed elevated lead levels in January 2015.
In prepared testimony for a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill, Creagh said state officials “relied on technical compliance (with the law) instead of assuring safe drinking water.”