MICHIGAN (AP) –Two employees at Michigan’s Environmental Quality Department have been suspended in connection with Flint water crisis.
Both employees were suspended pending an investigation, in accordance with civil service rules. The workers were not identified.
On Friday, Gov. Snyder released a statement following the suspensions.
“Michiganders need to be able to depend on state government to do what’s best for them and in the case of the DEQ that means ensuring their drinking water is safe,” Snyder said. “Some DEQ actions lacked common sense and that resulted in this terrible tragedy in Flint. I look forward to the results of the investigation to ensure these mistakes don’t happen again.”
Snyder has apologized for Flint lead contamination. The environmental agency’s director and communications director resigned last month.
The governor says some agency actions “lacked common sense, and that resulted in this terrible tragedy in Flint.”
State water regulators failed to make sure corrosive water from the Flint River was treated to prevent leaching from lead pipes.
A top federal regulator resigned this week in connection with the lead contamination.
