Residents and business owners from Flint, Michigan, could have access to a massive compensation fund to help them recover from the water crisis that started in 2014.

A preliminary settlement announced Thursday in the class-action lawsuit between the residents of Flint and the top Michigan officials at the time of the water crisis revealed that the state intends to establish a $600 million victim compensation fund to help those harmed by the 2014 decision to change the city’s water source to an unsafe supply that had dangerously high levels of lead.