The EPA says lead in Flint’s water is at acceptable levels. Residents still have concerns about its safety. [Video]

The Environmental Protection Agency says lead in the water in Flint, Michigan, is lower than federal safety limits specify. It’s been a decade since the city, attempting to save millions of dollars, inadvertently exposed more than 100,000 people, including vulnerable children, to lead seeping from aging pipes — and many residents still don’t trust what’s coming out of their faucets and showers.

Melissa Mays, who has become an advocate in the city and was a lead plaintiff in a class action suit over the exposure, says little has changed in the city since 2014. That’s when the economically troubled city disconnected its water supply from Detroit’s system and began drawing from the Flint River. 

The corrosive chemicals used to decontaminate the river water sent lead from the city’s pipes into residents’ faucets. The number of children with dangerous levels of lead in their blood doubled. The water system also may have played a role in some cases in a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease…