– Gov. Rick Snyder’s office today posted four additional batches of Executive Office emails, accompanying documents and related materials from Snyder’s briefings regarding the Flint water crisis from 2011 through January 5, when the state declared an emergency in the city.
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Snyder said he had asked state’s Auditor General and the health agency’s inspector general to investigate the issues and they agreed.
Last month, a report by Detroit Free Press cited Glasgow as saying in an email to Michigan Department of Environmental Quality official Mike Prysby: “I do not anticipate giving the OK to begin sending water out any time soon”. Separately, Attorney General Bill Schuette has hired a team to conduct a criminal probe, and federal authorities are also on the beat. Lead from aging pipes leached into the drinking water because it wasn’t treated with anti-corrosion chemicals.
Flint says it will stop sending water bills to residents until April so it can account for $30 million in aid from the state of MI.
In 2014-15, nine people died and dozens more became ill from Legionnaires’ disease in Genesee County. The Snyder administration was aware of the outbreak but never informed the public.
Snyder has repeatedly apologized for the state’s poor handling of the water crisis but has rejected calls to resign.
Experts believe the Flint River was the source of Legionella bacteria, although no definitive link has been made. Jim Ananich, the leader of Senate Democrats.
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MDHHS remains committed to promoting public health across the state, and welcomes further review of its efforts in Genesee County. The memo was added to a calendar appointment notice emailed to several top aides of Snyder, although Adler reportedly said that his warning referred to the potential problems with operating the treatment plant and not the failure to add anti-corrosive treatments.
