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Engine Exposure
General Motors says it will stop using Flint River water in its plants after workers notice that the water corrodes engine parts. -
Reward to Flint
Gov. Snyder awards Flint $2 million to improve its water system. -
Walter's Children Exposure
Blood tests reveal that all of Walters' four children were exposed to lead, and that Gavin, four years old, has lead poisoning. She had found her 18 year old daughter's hair has fallen out from her head. -
Virginia Test
Marc Edwards, a professor at Virginia Tech and an expert on lead corrosion, conducts new tests on the Walters' home without flushing the taps first and finds lead levels as high as 13,200 ppb—more than twice the level the EPA classifies as hazardous waste. -
Children in Flnt Exposed
Flint issues a lead warning, advising residents to drink and cook only with cold tap water, but still maintains that the water complies with federal standards. The governor's chief of staff emails his boss: "The MDEQ and [Department of Community Health] feel that some in Flint are taking the very sensitive issue of children's exposure to lead -
DEATH
Snyder deploys National Guard troops to distribute bottled water and water filters to Flint homes. A day later, the governor announces that cases of Legionnaire's disease have spiked in Genesee County since Flint residents began drinking the river water—10 people in the county had died from the normally rare disease.
