This story was updated at 4:44 p.m. EDT.
Ten years after the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, the city still hasn’t finished replacing all its lead pipes as promised, a judge ruled this week.
Judge David Lawson on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan found the city in contempt for failing to meet earlier court-sanctioned deadlines to replace lead service lines, which pose dangerous health risks to children and adults.
Flint agreed in a 2017 settlement agreement to replace all pipes coated with the heavy metal by March of 2020, Lawson said in the ruling. Since then, a coalition of local pastors and Flint resident Melissa Mays, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Natural Resources Defense Council, have complained on six occasions that the city wasn’t complying with the deal.
