A boil-water alert Flint officials issued Tuesday remains in effect at least until bacteria testing is completed Thursday afternoon, the city said. 
 
 “A decision on whether to suspend the boil-water notice will be made once the results are in,” officials said in an update Wednesday. 
 
 The boil-water advisory was issued after a large water transmission line adjacent to Dort Highway broke Tuesday, which led to a water main break on Dupont, city officials said. 
 
 The break has since been contained, utilities administrator Michael Glasgow said in a statement Wednesday. 
 
 “The leak was completely isolated last night. Water pressures should be back at normal operating levels across the city,” he said. “Crews are still assessing the damage and starting on the actual repair of the affected water main.” 
 
 The area affected included a large swath between Clio and North Center roads. 
 
 As a precaution, city officials are warning residents to boil all filtered water for one minute then let it cool before using. Residents not using a filter are asked to flush the water for at least seven minutes before collecting to boil. 
 
 Air and loose sediment may be trapped in the water lines, but residents are urged to not flush their system through filters since that could affect performance, according to the advisory. 
 
 Flint’s lead-contamination problems trace to the city’s switch to Flint River water in April 2014 for its source of drinking water and the state’s failure to require corrosive controls. The state acknowledged the problem in October. 
 
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 Read or Share this story: http://detne.ws/1XhhDaN ||||| (CNN) The folks in Flint, Michigan, just can't seem to get a break. 
 
 Already using filters on their faucets to make their toxic water clean, they'll now have to boil it, too. 
 
 Flint is under a boil-water advisory after a Tuesday water main break. Water pressure fell, and that may have allowed bacterial contaminants to enter the system. 
 
 "Bacteria are generally not harmful and are common throughout our environment," a statement from the city said 
 
 The advisory is being called a precaution and will be lifted once water sampling shows the water is safe to drink. 
 
 More money 
 
 The latest setback came as the mayor said she needs $55 million to remove lead pipes in the city. Karen Weaver is asking Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to partner with her to get the funds. 
 
 "In order for Flint residents to once again have confidence and trust in the water coming from their faucets, all lead pipes in the city of Flint need to be replaced," she said. 
 
 A spokesman for the governor said the office was reviewing Weaver's proposal. 
 
 "Gov. Snyder is including money in his budget request on Wednesday to address Flint water infrastructure," said Dave Murray. "That figure could be a starting point, but we won't know for sure until we are able to study the pipes that are in place now and know better what needs to be replaced and how quickly." 
 
 Deputy press secretary Anna Heaton said the governor has asked the Legislature for an additional $195 million for the crisis. It's part of the budget plan for the 2016-2017 fiscal year presented to the Legislature on Wednesday. 
 
 The $195 million consists of $37 million for water and water infrastructure, $15 million for food and nutrition, $63 million for health and well-being, $30 million for water bill credits and a $50 million reserve fund, Snyder said. 
 
 Officials say $37 million already has been approved. 
 
 Rusting away 
 
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 The people and water pipes of the city weren't the only casualties of the corrosive Flint River water. 
 
 Damage is showing up in the city's fire equipment. 
 
 One pump has already been replaced because of severe rust. An invoice shows $65,000 in needed repairs. 
 
 The fleet's newest fire truck is also showing signs of premature damage and wear. 
 
 "We actually called the manufacturers of three of our fire trucks, and they gave us some ideas of how to combat that a little bit, but what's done is done and we're hoping it doesn't get to a point where we have to replace pumps," Fire Chief David Cox Jr. told CNN affiliate WJRT 
 
 Otherwise, things will really get expensive. 
 
 "That's a brand-new $462,000 pump that we're talking about," said Cox. 
 
 And one more thing to worry about. 
 
 The Flint Fire Department is worried the water could be corroding the fire suppression systems around the city too, the affiliate reported. Sprinkler installation companies are being told to inspect systems installed in homes and businesses. ||||| This post has been updated.* 
 
 Residents of Flint, Mich., complained of persistent problems with their water since the city switched the supply in April 2014. On Jan. 13, officials announced a spike in cases of Legionnaires' disease in the area. (AP) 
 
 For months, worried parents in Flint, Mich., arrived at their pediatricians’ offices in droves. Holding a toddler by the hand or an infant in their arms, they all have the same question: Are their children being poisoned? 
 
 To find out, all it takes is a prick of the finger, a small letting of blood. If tests come back positive, the potentially severe consequences are far more difficult to discern. 
 
 That’s how lead works. It leaves its mark quietly, with a virtually invisible trail. But years later, when a child shows signs of a learning disability or behavioral issues, lead’s prior presence in the bloodstream suddenly becomes inescapable. 
 
 According to the World Health Organization, “lead affects children’s brain development resulting in reduced intelligence quotient (IQ), behavioral changes such as shortening of attention span and increased antisocial behavior, and reduced educational attainment. Lead exposure also causes anemia, hypertension, renal impairment, immunotoxicity and toxicity to the reproductive organs. The neurological and behavioral effects of lead are believed to be irreversible.” 
 
 The Hurley Medical Center, in Flint, released a study in September that confirmed what many Flint parents had feared for over a year: The proportion of infants and children with above-average levels of lead in their blood has nearly doubled since the city switched from the Detroit water system to using the Flint River as its water source, in 2014. 
 
 The crisis reached a nadir Monday night, when Flint Mayor Karen Weaver declared a state of emergency. 
 
 “The City of Flint has experienced a Manmade disaster,” Weaver said in a declaratory statement. 
 
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 The mayor — elected after her predecessor, Dayne Walling, experienced fallout from his administration’s handling of the water problems — said in the statement that she was seeking support from the federal government to deal with the “irreversible” effects of lead exposure on the city’s children. Weaver thinks that these health consequences will lead to a greater need for special education and mental health services, as well as developments in the juvenile justice system. 
 
 “Do we meet the criteria [for a disaster area]? I don’t know,” she told Michigan Live. But Weaver doesn’t think the city can receive the help it needs without alerting federal officials to the urgency of the matter. 
 
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 To those living in Flint, the announcement may feel as if it has been a long time coming. 
 
 Almost immediately after the city started drawing from the Flint River in April 2014, residents began complaining about the water, which they said was cloudy in appearance and emitted a foul odor. 
 
 Since then, complications from the water coming from the Flint River have only piled up. Although city and state officials initially denied that the water was unsafe, the state issued a notice informing Flint residents that their water contained unlawful levels of trihalomethanes, a chlorine byproduct linked to cancer and other diseases. 
 
 
 
 Flint Mayor Karen Weaver, right, and City Administrator Natasha Henderson, address questions about adding supplemental phosphates to the city’s water during a news conference in December. (Jake May/Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP) 
 
 Protesters marched to City Hall in the fierce Michigan cold, calling for officials to reconnect Flint’s water to the Detroit system. The use of the Flint River was supposed to be temporary, set to end in 2016 after a pipeline to Lake Huron’s Karegnondi Water Authority is finished. 
 
 A petition lobbying for the ending the city’s Flint River water supply garnered 26,000 signatures. 
 
 Through continued demonstrations by Flint residents and mounting scientific evidence of the water’s toxins, city and state officials offered various solutions — from asking residents to boil their water to providing them with water filters — in an attempt to work around the need to reconnect to the Detroit system. 
 
 That call was finally made by Snyder (R) on Oct. 8. He announced that he had a plan for coming up with the $12 million to switch Flint back to the Detroit system. On Oct. 16, water started flowing again from Detroit to Flint. 
 
 David Murray, press secretary for Michigan governor Rick Snyder’s office, told The Washington Post that the state has been working on improving the water quality in Flint and other cities for the past year. It has also offered more than $10 million in financial assistance to pay for a temporary switch into the Detroit system while the connection to Lake Huron is being prepared. 
 
 “Flint residents need to have access to safe, clean water,” Murray wrote in an email to The Post. “Gov. Snyder and the administration have been working closely with the city to focus on health issues affecting children and other city residents, and address water infrastructure challenges.” 
 
 He added that while the water leaving Flint’s drinking water system is safe to drink, “some families with lead plumbing in their homes or service connections could experience higher levels of lead in the water that comes out of their faucets.” An action plan created by Snyder in October includes free water testing, free water filters and the accelerating of corrosion controls in the drinking water system, according to Murray. 
 
 For the parents of children who may have been affected, such actions were accompanied by the sense that they had come too late. 
 
 These parents and other Flint residents filed a class-action federal lawsuit against Snyder, the state, the city and 13 other public officials in November for the damages they have suffered as a result of the lead-tainted water. The suit, which claims to represent “tens of thousands of residents,” alleges that the city and state officials “deliberately deprived” them of their 14th Amendment rights by replacing formerly safe drinking water with a cheaper alternative that was known to be highly toxic. 
 
 
 
 Lyla McCallun, 4, formerly of Flint, draws on a sheet of paper while sitting on the lap of her grandmother, Flint resident Jacqueline Pemberton, one of six others listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. (Jake May /Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP) 
 
 “For more than 18 months, state and local government officials ignored irrefutable evidence that the water pumped from the Flint River exposed [residents] to extreme toxicity,” the complaint reads. “The deliberately false denials about the safety of the Flint River water was as deadly as it was arrogant.” 
 
 Calling officials’ conduct “so egregious and so outrageous that it shocks the conscience,” the complaint cites the specific experiences of a few plaintiffs and their families, all of whom allege they have been challenged by similar health ailments since high levels of lead and copper entered their bloodstreams. 
 
 These conditions include skin lesions, hair loss, chemical-induced hypertension, vision loss and depression. Of the four families described in the complaint, two had ceased to drink Flint water after a certain point — and used it only for washing and cooking — but still said they were exposed to many of the same ill effects. 
 
 Snyder’s press secretary, Murray, wrote in an email to The Post that the administration disagrees with points in the suit, but declined to discuss details of pending litigation. 
 
 As the Detroit Free Press reported in October, avoiding Flint water became a way of life for the city’s residents. 
 
 Those who could afford it opted for bottled water, buying it by the gallons. Those who couldn’t spare the money drank it straight from the tap all the same, knowing that they would be paying for it later. When it came to bathing, some slowly filled bathtubs with pots of boiled water for their children. 
 
 (The city issued a boil advisory in September 2014. This recommendation runs contrary to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines on lead in drinking water, which state that heating or boiling water will not remove lead. In fact, “because some of the water evaporates during the boiling process, the lead concentration of the water can actually increase slightly as the water is boiled,” according to the CDC.) 
 
 LeeAnn Walters, a Flint resident and mother of 4-year-old twins, took every precaution after blood tests revealed that the level of lead in one of her sons had soared after the switch to Flint River. 
 
 “I was hysterical,” Walters told the Free Press. “I cried when they gave me my first lead report.” 
 
 She had feared lead was the problem when her whole family developed rashes and her son stopped gaining weight. 
 
 Now, Walters said, when her children experience problems as they grow up, she will always wonder whether things would have been different — if their lives would have been better — if it weren’t for the water. 
 
 *This post has been updated with a response from the office of Gov. Rick Snyder. 
 
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– Boil-water advisories aren't all that uncommon, but this one might have Flint residents feeling like they're the butt of a cosmic joke: A water main break has prompted the city to warn people to boil their water before drinking it. As CNN notes, this mostly applies to those using city water through filters installed on their taps in the wake of the lead crisis. But "residents not using a filter are asked to flush the water for at least seven minutes before collecting to boil," adds the Detroit News. The break resulted in a drop in water pressure that may have allowed bacteria into the system. As a headline at Fark succinctly puts it, "residents are being told to boil the water before they not drink it." (The mayor is promising that new pipes are in the works.)