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Old school behind Flint church filled with abandoned cases of bottled water
Updated Mar 26, 3:08 PM; Posted Mar 26, 12:33 PM
Kaiti Sullivan
Hundreds of bottles full of water were found in an abandoned school building behind what used to be St. Agnes Catholic Church on Pierson Road, Tuesday, March 25, 2019 in Flint. Kaiti Sullivan | MLive.com
By Zahra Ahmad | zahmad@mlive.com
FLINT, MI -- An old school once part of the St. Agnes Catholic Church in Flint is filled with abandoned cases of donated bottled water.
Flint resident Jimmy Cowell wandered into the structure with his fiancé and said he stumbled upon “hundreds of cases of bottled water.”
“We were pretty dumbfounded that anyone could leave that much water behind that this city truly relied on,” Cowell said. “If anyone wants to know where Flint donations went, it’s just sitting in abandoned buildings in stockpiles... This is probably a 30-by-50 room full of water.”
Fundraisers have been held at St. Agnes Catholic Church since the Flint Water Crisis started in 2015 and the old school behind the church was used to store donated bottles of water.
In 2016, a water drive was hosted at St. Agnes Catholic Church on West Pierson Road through donations from the Grand Rapids Latino community. The water from that drive was cleared out by the Genesee County Hispanic Latino Collaborative, CEO San Juana Olivares said.
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