The City of Flint has agreed to use a data-driven approach to finding the remaining lead pipes delivering drinking water to residents’ homes as part of a landmark legal settlement directing the city’s response to the water crisis.
The agreement imposes detailed requirements to improve the efficiency of the city’s pipe replacement program to ensure that all remaining lead pipes are identified and removed.
The parties to the settlement in Concerned Pastors for Social Action v. Khouri agreed that the city will use a statistical model developed by Dr. Eric Schwartz of the University of Michigan and Dr. Jacob Abernethy at the
