"Flint Temporarily Suspends Sending Out Water Bills"

"Flint Mayor Karen Weaver has suspended water billing temporarily — for about a month — while the city works out how it will apply $30 million from the State of Michigan to help residents who’ve paid for nearly two years for water that’s unsafe to drink.

Gov. Rick Snyder approved the $30-million plan last week to provide credits to residents, who now pay some of the nation’s highest rates for water that’s been tainted with lead after the city switched its source of drinking water from Detroit’s water department to the Flint River in April 2014. The more corrosive river water wasn’t properly treated and ended up damaging protective coatings in the city’s water pipes, leaching lead into the supply.

Weaver said today  that city employees are working to “get accounts in order” and obtaining computer programs that will calculate and apply the credits to the water accounts of more than 85,000 utility users on record from the date of the switch to present."

Matt Helms reports for the Detroit Free Press March 9, 2016.