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The Flint water crisis is costing big money to investigate.
Matthew Dolan of the Detroit Free Press reports that investigators need more money to investigate the mess than originally anticipated.
The Freep reports:
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette's wide-ranging probe into the Flint water crisis could cost as much as $4.9 million, more than triple the amount allocated by the state in a contract in March, according to a posting on the state Administrative Board website.
Earlier this year, Schuette received approval from the board to expand the contract to up to $1.5 million, from the original $249,000, with Flood Law, a Royal Oak legal firm. Todd Flood is the lawyer Schuette tapped to head his investigation into whether any state laws were violated in the lead contamination of Flint drinking water, which has led to state and federal emergency declarations and instructions to Flint residents not to drink tap water without using a lead filter.
The request, scheduled to be considered Tuesday by the finance committee of the state administrative board, would boost the total funding for the investigation by $3.4 million for the 2016 fiscal year.
