The 274 pages cover 2014 and 2015, including an 18-month period during which the city switched its water source to the Flint River while under state financial management until it reconnected to Detroit’s system because of lead contamination blamed on state regulatory failures.
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Flint, Michigan will soon receive a big delivery as residents continue to struggle with lead-tainted water.
Pregnant women and children were told January 29 by local, state and federal officials not to use tap water unless its been tested for lead, with recent test for lead finding 26 sites across the city with readings of 150 parts per billion or more of lead- ten times the federal action limit.
“Elevated lead levels in drinking water have been in the news lately”, said Rick Schaffer, chief operator at Norwalk’s water treatment plant as he provided more details in a written statement.
“It’s really important that everyone get their water tested”, Weaver said. But the liberal media have treated this overwhelmingly as a Republican problem for Gov. Rick Snyder.
“When you have acidic water sitting in pipes, it starts corroding them”, Kelleher said. The city found fecal coliform and toxic chemicals called trihalomethanes in the water, but officials maintained the stuff was safe to drink for everyone except the sick or elderly.
“When lead is present in drinking water, it is the result of the water being corrosive”.
The city has hired Edwards to oversee water testing. Multiple water donors and companies who want to help are having difficulties with transporting and distributing the water to Flint citizens.
Rachael DePauw said she’s done as much as she can to protect her daughters against the dangers of lead, repainting the walls of her 1930s home and trying not to track dirt inside.
An assessment cited in Michigan’s request for a federal disaster declaration estimated the potential cost of fixing the damage to Flint’s water distribution infrastructure at $713 million. Weeks later, after a Virginia Tech expert and local doctors raised alarms about lead contamination, Snyder’s chief of staff at the time, Dennis Muchmore, told Snyder that state and federal officials could find no evidence of a major rise in lead levels.
They collected more than 15,000 bottles of clean water in one week.
He says the funding will provide immediate resources in Flint but is not the end of state assistance.
“We’ve had a city in the United States of America where the population, which is poor in many ways and majority African-American, has been drinking and bathing in lead-contaminated water”.
“When we get there it will make it real for us”.
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“We’re ensuring that our residents not only have access to bottled water, we’re actually delivering bottled water”, Hayman said. But former Attorney General Frank Kelley, in a 1986 opinion, said “the Legislature has exempted state legislators” from the law. Numerous water infrastructures are 70 years old, and it will take $1.5 trillion to improve and modernize these systems.
