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In the past week, crews have recovered about 1,200 gallons of the oily-watery mix, city officials said. Booms remain in the river in parts of downtown Flint.

Ten years after the water crisis caused health challenges for many, students from Flint Southwestern Classical Academy join in a multi-county effort to test for pollutants in the Flint River.

Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam (LAN), an engineering firm, was sued for some responsibility for Flint’s lead-contaminated water. It agreed to settlement with Flint residents.

An oily sheen is spread a quarter mile along the Flint River at Whaley Park. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has staff on site.

Officials with Lockhart Chemical filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy protection this week in Pennsylvania, in a move that allows for the company’s assets to be liquidated, while holding creditors at bay.

Lockhart Chemical Company was the source of an oily spill that spread more than 20 miles downstream along the Flint River earlier this year.

The Flint River Flotilla usually draws upwards of 300 people in tubes, canoes, and kayaks to float down the Flint River. But not this year.

Crews have removed between 13,000 to 14,000 gallons of an unidentified oily substance from the Flint River.

Since Wednesday, crews have collected roughly 5,000 gallons of a petroleum-based substance along a 20 mile stretch of the river in Genesee County.

The spill of an oily substance has been traced to a pipe that runs beneath the Lockhart Chemical facility.