Burgess v. United States

LINDA V. PARKER, U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE

This is one of many cases emerging from what is now infamously known as the Flint Water Crisis. The crisis arose when the City of Flint, Michigan ("City" or "Flint"), changed the source of its water supply from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department ("DWSD") to the Flint River. The raw water drawn from the Flint River, processed through Flint's outdated and previously mothballed water treatment plant, was highly corrosive and not properly treated by the City's public works department. As a result, water with excessive lead and copper levels flowed…