The Deadline to Register As Claimants for the Flint Water $641.25M Settlement is Monday
Monday is the deadline for Flint residents or former residents to register as claimants in a $641.25million civil suit settlement.
Potential claimants can register online at officialflintwatersettlement.com. Mailed registrations postmarked by Monday, March 29, will also be accepted. Registration forms are available on the website or by calling the claims administrator at 800-493-1754.
Close to 40,000 people had registered by Friday to participate in the settlement. A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to the settlement, which is structured so that most of the money paid out will go to Flint residents who were children at the time of the lead exposure.
Flint’s water crisis began when a state-appointed emergency manager switched the city’s drinking water supply from Lake Huron water treated in Detroit to Flint River water treated at the Flint Water Treatment Plant. It was intended as a temporary, cost-saving measure, but turned out to be a disastrous mistake. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has acknowledged it failed to require needed corrosion-control chemicals as part of the water treatment process, resulting in lead leaching from pipes and fittings into the water system.
