CANNON BALL, ND -- The North Dakota pipeline battle may be over but veterans and community activists supporting the opposition of the project say their fight isn't finished and the Flint water crisis is next on their list.

"We don't know when we are going to be there but we will be heading to Flint," said US Army veteran Wes Clark Jr. who helped organize veterans who joined the fight. "This problem is all over the county. It's got to be more than veterans. People have been treated wrong in this county for a long time."

The Army Corps of Engineers denied on Dec. 4 a permit for the construction of a portion of a 1,172 pipeline costing $3.8 billion. The uncompleted stretch of the project was set to run under Lake Oahe.

In recent weeks, there was an all out call for military veterans to join the fight - a move that Flint resident Arthur Woodson said may have helped end the fight.

"I feel that by the veterans coming out and leading up to it all the media attention," said Woodson. "All the media attention that was there brought more attention to Standing Rock. The government had a change of heart."

Protesters have been fighting against the pipeline for months and have endured being shot with rubber bullets and sprayed with water in freezing temperatures by police. So far, reports say an estimated 564 people have been arrested.

Woodson traveled to North Dakota on Dec. 3 to show support with fellow veterans with another Flint resident and military veteran, George F. Grundy II who said he was overwhelmed by the amount of attention the Flint water crisis had gained with supporters of the Standing Rock fight.

"These are people who have been just as oppressed and in some other forms more oppressed than black folks and to hear these people speak the name of Flint and know that Flint is in duress too and say that we are in their prayers that just does a lot to me," said Grundy. "It just shows me that the human spirit is larger than any corporate entity and you can believe in your fellow person because it's worth it."

Both Woodson and Grundy talked to community activists, veterans and Native Americans about Flint's water crisis and stressed the need to keep the national spotlight on the issue. An estimated 4,500 veterans came to Standing Rock to support the protest.

Community activist Jay Ponti said momentum has been loss with the Flint water crisis and journalists need to make sure it stays relevant in the news.

"The flow of information is very low because the media has been concerned with covering...the presidential election," said Ponti, a community activist and founder of the web site Revhub.org. It's a great disservice. You cannot have a healthy democracy if the citizens are not informed. When there is no information...the citizens cannot make decisions...Our people are suffering. They are suffering in Standing Rock. They are suffering in Flint. They are suffering in Louisiana."

Ponti who was covering the Standing Rock protest said he making plans to come to Flint to help with the city's water crisis.

In September 2015 it was found that children in Flint had elevated blood lead levels since the city's switch from using Detroit as a water source in 2014 to the Flint River.

"People can't drink water in Flint, Michigan," Ponti said. "They can't take baths. They are poisoned. They are spending more money on propaganda instead of fixing pipes."

So far, an estimated 550 homes have had lead-tainted pipes replaced in Flint.