Wednesday, January 27, 2016

'Nobody Cares': Flint Family Says Lead Pipes Must Go

The modest one-story home in Flint that Oscar and Elizabeth Brown bought 21 years ago with paychecks from the nearby Buick plant was the place where they raised and nurtured their grandchildren.

But now the couple believes that same home may be hurting its youngest resident, great-great-grandson Dana Brock, a sweet 3-year-old who began suffering health problems soon after the city's disastrous switch to a new water source. 

He's one of thousands of children who have been exposed to lead because corrosive water from the Flint River damaged old service lines that run between water mains and houses. It could be years before the impact on kids like Dana is fully known. 

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