Months after a county judge ordered Flint, Michigan to cease shutting off water pipes and revise customers’ bills, the city is once again sending out letters warning customers to pay or go dry.
The city sent out more than 1,800 shutoff notices since last week, representing about 60 percent of all customers billed in September. While city ordinances call for a 10-day grace period between a shutoff warning and the city actually closing a pipe, Flint is giving residents until December 1 to make payments.
