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    Nearly a decade after the Flint water crisis health impacts became a national warning about government failure, many Flint residents say they are still living with the consequences. Sen. Elissa Slotkin told the U.S. Senate this month that families continue to report health problems and long-term disruption as court cases and settlements continue Sen. Elissa Slotkin took to the U.S. Senate floor last week to deliver a message Flint residents have been repeating for nearly a decade: the crisis may no longer dominate headlines, but the harm has not ended. “An American city was poisoned,” Slotkin said, describing families who reported discolored water, rashes, seizures, hair loss, and chronic health problems as officials insisted the tap water was safe. The Flint water crisis began in April 2014, when the city switched its water source to the Flint River without adding corrosion-control treatment, a safeguard that helps prevent lead from leaching out of aging pipes. 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Research examining pediatric blood lead testing patterns in Flint underscores how the crisis altered health behavior and monitoring, even years after the worst contamination became public. The long road to accountability, including the courtroom While the physical infrastructure is improving, Flint’s search for accountability has played out in courtrooms for years. In a highly watched civil “bellwether” trial in 2022, jurors could not reach a verdict in a case involving engineering firms accused of failing to prevent or mitigate the crisis, leading a judge to declare a mistrial. Since then, major civil settlements have continued to reshape what “justice” looks like for many families—often less about a single guilty verdict than about whether compensation and long-promised services actually reach affected residents. In February 2025, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a $53 million civil settlement with Veolia North America tied to allegations that the company’s work contributed to prolonging the crisis; the settlement was described as a way to provide closure after years of litigation. The settlement added to earlier agreements, including the state’s broader $626 million class-action settlement framework meant to compensate people harmed by lead exposure. A court-supervised claims process has approved tens of thousands of claims, but residents have faced long waits as payments move from approval to distribution. The criminal cases tied to the crisis, meanwhile, largely collapsed. A Michigan judge formally dismissed misdemeanor charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder in 2023 after appellate rulings ended the prosecutions, effectively closing that chapter of the legal response. For many Flint families, that outcome deepened the sense that high-level decision-makers escaped meaningful consequences. Health and education impacts also remain a pressing concern. A New York Times report in 2019 described Flint schools struggling with rising needs for individualized education plans and behavioral supports for children who were exposed to lead—needs that educators and parents say require sustained resources, not short-term attention. Separate academic work has linked the crisis to measurable setbacks in educational outcomes, adding to evidence that environmental disasters can shape children’s trajectories long after the immediate emergency fades. There has been visible progress on the city’s pipes. Michigan reported in 2025 that Flint had completed replacement of nearly 11,000 lead water service lines under a legal settlement that required free replacement offers to residents, a milestone that public health leaders framed as nationally significant. 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