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    The drive to never raise taxes, and to cut corners has consequences. The price of "cheap" water turns out to be far higher than intended.

    A look at some of the key events in the development of the Flint water crisis:

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    APRIL 2014: In an effort to save money, Flint begins drawing its water from the Flint River instead of relying on water from Detroit. The move is considered temporary while the city waits to connect to a new regional water system. Residents immediately complain about the smell, taste and appearance of the water. They also raise health concerns, reporting rashes, hair loss and other problems.

    SUMMER 2014: Three boil-water advisories are issued in 22 days after positive tests for coliform bacteria.

    OCTOBER 2014: A General Motors engine plant stops using Flint water, saying it rusts parts.

    JANUARY 2015: Flint seeks an evaluation of its efforts to improve the water amid concerns that it contains potentially harmful levels of a disinfection byproduct. Detroit offers to reconnect Flint to its water system. Flint insists its water is safe.

    JAN. 28: Flint residents snap up 200 cases of bottled water in 30 minutes in a giveaway program. More giveaways will follow in ensuing months.

    FEB. 3: State officials pledge $2 million for Flint's troubled water system.

    FEBRUARY: A 40-member advisory committee is formed to address concerns over Flint's water. Mayor Dayne Walling says the committee will ensure the community is involved in the issue.

    MARCH 19: Flint promises to spend $2.24 million on immediate improvements to its water supply.

    MARCH 27: Flint officials say the quality of its water has improved and that testing finds the water meets all state and federal standards for safety.

    SEPT. 24: A group of doctors led by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha of Hurley Medical Center urges Flint to stop using the Flint River for water after finding high levels of lead in the blood of children. State regulators insist the water is safe.

    SEPT. 29: Gov. Rick Snyder pledges to take action in response to the lead levels. It's the first acknowledgment by the state that lead is a problem.

    OCT. 2: Snyder announces that the state will spend $1 million to buy water filters and test water in Flint public schools.

    OCT. 8: Snyder calls for Flint to go back to using water from Detroit's system again.

    OCT. 15: The Michigan Legislature and Snyder approve nearly $9.4 million in aid to Flint, including $6 million to help switch its drinking water back to Detroit. The legislation also includes money for water filters, inspections and lab testing.

    NOV. 3: Voters elect newcomer Karen Weaver over in bent Mayor Dayne Walling amid fallout over the drinking water.

    DEC. 29: Snyder accepts the resignation of Department of Environmental Quality Director Dan Wyant and apologizes for what occurred in Flint.

    JAN. 5: Snyder declares a state of emergency in Flint, the same day federal officials confirm that they are investigating.

    JAN. 12: Snyder activates the Michigan National Guard to help distribute bottled water and filters in Flint and asks the federal government for help.

    JAN. 13: Michigan health officials report an increase in Legionnaires' disease cases during periods over the past two years in the county that includes Flint.

    JAN. 14: Snyder asks the Obama administration for major disaster declaration and more federal aid.

    JAN. 16: President Barack Obama signs emergency declaration and orders federal aid for Flint, authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate relief efforts.

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    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto...higan-36331514

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    Repug MISgovernance! Is there any other kind?

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    more light needs to be shed on this tragic event.

    "thats why i recommend the Philips hue lighting system"

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    Repug MISgovernance! Is there any other kind?
    Really? Is that what happened?

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    Michigan Governor Under Fire For Flint Water Crisis, Blames Clinton For ‘Politicizing’ Issue

    http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016...er-politicize/

    btw, MI is one of the states where the governor is protected by FOIA.

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    "said her hands were tied in bringing the information to the public."

    states rights !

    Also, FEMA can't go into a state unless requested, in a man-made disasters for emergency help.

    FEMA responses to natural disasters do not need an invitation from a state.



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    Fox News: Barack Obama Wants To Unpoison Flint’s Water Because He Is Racist, Q.E.D

    HEATHER NAUERT (HOST): Class action lawsuit set to be filed against Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and other leaders in that state, as frustration over a water crisis in Flint, Michigan intensifies today. National Guard troops called in to help deliver clean water after Flint’s water supply was contaminated with very dangerous lead, as any parent would know about that because that’s one of the top things that doctors look for in young children. So let’s bring in Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett. Gregg, as an example of how political this is now getting, the mayor of Flint, Michigan at the White House at this hour, meeting with Valerie Jarrett. The White House is going to be naming a czar. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders weighing in in the Democratic debate coming down on Republicans about this.

    GREGG JARRETT: Because it raises issue of class and race. Sixty percent of the residents of Flint, Michigan are black. Forty-one percent live below the poverty line. They’re going to the White House because they want a federal emergency disaster declaration to get federal funds but they’re likely not going to get it.

    NAUERT: Well this is a way they could potentially get more black votes in the coming election.




    The often-controversial Oakland County executive, L. Brooks Patterson, suggested the Flint water crisis may have been blown out of proportion, citing a radio interview on Paul W. Smith’s and Frank Beckmann’s show on WJR-AM (760) with Bill Ballenger, a longtime political observer and former state lawmaker who lives in Flint.

    Patterson said Ballenger told Beckmann that the water crisis is overblown, and that tests on Ballenger’s blood found no elevated lead levels. Patterson said Ballenger’s remarks offer “the other side” to the story of what’s happening in Flint, where testing has found dangerously elevated lead levels in children after the city switched from getting water from Lake Huron through Detroit’s water department to water from the Flint River.


    Patterson said Ballenger “was adamant that he lives in Flint, he drinks the water, he showers in that water,” and that blood tests found no evidence of lead in his system. He said Ballenger called the water crisis a hoax and “one of the most overblown scandals in the history of the state.”

    http://wonkette.com/598038/fox-news-...s-racist-q-e-d


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    Newly released emails cast Flint scandal in a new light

    Meanwhile, the materials that have been released are serious enough that Snyder may owe the public another apology or two. The New York Times reported this morning:

    A top aide to Michigan’s governor referred to people raising questions about the quality of Flint’s water as an “anti-everything group.” Other critics were accused of turning complaints about water into a “political football.” And worrisome findings about lead by a concerned pediatrician were dismissed as “data,” in quotes. […]

    [T]he do ents provide a glimpse of state leaders who were at times dismissive of the concerns of residents, seemed eager to place responsibility with local government and, even as the scientific testing was hinting at a larger problem, were reluctant to acknowledge it.

    In one particularly damning email from late September 2015, the governor’s then-chief of staff said he couldn’t “figure out why the state is responsible” for the Flint crisis.


    Perhaps because Flint was under the control of an emergency manager appointed by the governor? Because state officials were responsible for policymaking decisions in the city of Flint? Because those officials did not report to the city’s residents, but rather, reported only to Rick Snyder?

    Meanwhile, the materials that have been released are serious enough that Snyder may owe the public another apology or two. The New York Times reported this morning:

    A top aide to Michigan’s governor referred to people raising questions about the quality of Flint’s water as an “anti-everything group.” Other critics were accused of turning complaints about water into a “political football.” And worrisome findings about lead by a concerned pediatrician were dismissed as “data,” in quotes. […]


    [T]he do ents provide a glimpse of state leaders who were at times dismissive of the concerns of residents, seemed eager to place responsibility with local government and, even as the scientific testing was hinting at a larger problem, were reluctant to acknowledge it.

    In one particularly damning email from late September 2015, the governor’s then-chief of staff said he

    couldn’t “figure out why the state is responsible” for the Flint crisis.


    Perhaps because Flint was under the control of an emergency manager appointed by the governor?

    Because state officials were responsible for policymaking decisions in the city of Flint?

    Because those officials did not report to the city’s residents, but rather, reported only to Rick Snyder?

    http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

    Repug MISgovernance, running govt as business, for dollars, rather than For The People.



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    Flint, Michigan's water crisis: what the national media got wrong


    That December 2014, Flint sent out EPA-mandated notices because the city had violated the Safe Drinking Water Act due to high levels of total trihalomethanes, a suspected carcinogen.

    We stopped using tap water to mix her supplemental formula, but our anxieties returned a few months later when rumors started to circulate about a new contaminant: lead.


    Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality repeatedly said that the water was safe, and they had the test numbers to back it up. (Later investigation would suggest that some of those numbers had been doctored to maintain federal compliance.)

    As late as July 2015 — 16 months after the switch had occurred — officials said that residents could "relax" about reports of lead in the water. Plus, the Department of Environmental Quality was monitored by the EPA, and they had made no official complaint. (Later investigation found that the EPA, too, knew of the presence of lead by mid-2015.)

    Even for a city in which one mayor had suggested we cut down all of the trees and put them up for sale and another had commissioned a massive bronze statue of himself, poisoning children with tap water just sounded too cartoonish to be real.

    The idea of the massive conspiracy involving collusion between local, state, and federal authorities that must have been involved in such a situation was too absurd to consider. Wasn't evil supposed to be banal instead of burlesque?

    After a parade of discolored water, E. coli boil notices, and total trihalomethanes violations, I finally had to concede the burlesquishness of evil.

    In October 2015, the state finally confirmed the worst of our fears: There was lead in the water after all. The city switched back to Detroit water, but the damage had already been done. We, and our children, were being poisoned.

    So why did we let them do this to us? And why did it take us so long to force a response?

    These questions are at the heart of aDaily Show segment from last week, in which host Trevor Noah remarked, "If the water is browner than me, I don't drink it."

    The stage was set on March 16, 2011, when Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed Public Act 4. This measure broadened an earlier law that provided an "emergency financial manager" for financially distressed cities and school districts. Under the new law, "emergency financial managers" became "emergency managers" with the power to cancel or renegotiate city contracts, liquidate assets, suspend local government, unilaterally draft policy, and even disincorporate. (It is worth noting that Michigan emergency managers have done all of these things except disincorporate, which was entertained by a manager in the city of Pontiac.)

    The need for an emergency manager was determined by a series of highly subjective criteria. Almost every city that got one was a poor, African-American-majority city devastated by a shrinking industrial sector: Flint, Pontiac, Detroit, Highland Park, Benton Harbor, and so on.

    Many Michiganders found Public Act 4 to be a violation of a strong state tradition of "home rule," and so overturned it by referendum in the 2012 election. But that didn't last long: the Republican-dominated state legislature immediately passed Public Act 436, which was almost identical, although it included a provision to pay the emergency managers from state coffers rather than local. Under Michigan law, a bill that includes an appropriation like this cannot be voided through referendum.

    It's those two words — "emergency manager" — that differentiate Flint from all but a handful of cities around the country, and which made it particularly vulnerable to the kind of reckless oversight that led to our contaminated water.


    There should be no doubt about who was ultimately responsible for Flint's water policies. In 2013, the Flint City Council voted 7-1 to build a new water pipeline to Lake Huron, freeing us from exorbitant rates from Detroit. Emergency manager Ed Kurtz went along, happily claiming a mandate for a policy he supported.

    Immediately after this decision was made, Detroit canceled its contract with Flint. The disastrous next step was made not by the Flint mayor or the city council but by the subsequent emergency manager, Darnell Earley.

    it would need to draw water from somewhere else in the meantime. That alternative source became the Flint River. And it was Earley whovalidated the filtration and use of Flint River water.

    Later, in 2015, amid rumors of lead compounded with TTHM violations, the city council voted, again 7-1, to "do all things necessary" to return to Detroit water. Their decision was vetoed by emergency manager Jerry Ambrose. He said that the vote was "incomprehensible."


    Yes, many local officials supported use of the river water for a long time, and concealed information from the public. As one activist has said, "There's plenty of blame to go around." Snyder and the former emergency managers have appealed to this fact when defending their records and legacy.

    Yet by empowering an unelected official with virtually unchecked local power, the state did not just obtain the right to set local policy, but also stripped residents of much influence over their elected representatives. Indeed, campaign aides working for locally elected officials told me that they had been pressured by the state to enforce the priorities of the managers or face an indefinite continuation of the state takeover.

    I cannot conceive that the Flint River water experiment would have even lasted a full year had Flint residents been able to threaten in bents at the ballot box.

    newspapers have been hesitant to emphatically and unambiguously declare who has been making the decisions in Flint. It wasn't "city officials," it wasn't the city council, and it wasn't even a mayor who often found himself supporting the state's priorities. Because the emergency managers had unchallenged authority in their oversight of Flint, it is they, along with the governor who appointed them, who bear ultimate responsibility for creating the crisis.

    The only reason the national public was informed of this crisis — the only reason the state is now under pressure to respond — is because of the constant, righteous fury of Flint residents.

    http://www.vox.com/2016/1/20/1078981...n-water-crisis

    btw, Detroit has its own Snyder emergency manager who cut off the Det water to Flint.

    BlackLivesDontMatter to old, white, racist Repug guys


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    Obama protects Clean Water Act from GOP effort

    Within weeks of the 2014 midterm elections, the new Republican-led Congress made clear one of its priorities would be trying to limit the Clean Water Act. The Obama administration’s EPA expanded pollution restrictions on previously unregulated waters – through a policy called the Waters of the United States rule – and conservatives said this could not stand.

    And for the most part, Republicans took some steps towards their goal. Using “a rarely invoked law known as the Congressional Review Act,” GOP lawmakers voted in November for a measure, championed by far-right Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Okla.), to curtail the Clean Water Act. It passed both chambers.

    As a practical matter, though, Republicans were just wasting their own time – they knew President Obama would veto the effort, and this week, he did exactly that.

    President Obama issued the ninth veto of his presidency Tuesday, rejecting a congressional resolution that would have overturned federal regulations on clean water. […]


    “Too many of our waters have been left vulnerable,” Obama said in a veto message to Congress. “Pollution from upstream sources ends up in the rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and coastal waters near which most Americans live and on which they depend for their drinking water, recreation, and economic development.”

    GOP lawmakers knew they’d never have the votes necessary to override the veto, but they nevertheless moved forward on the idea today, and came up far short. A veto override would require 67 votes in the Senate, and a procedural vote today needed 60 votes. Republicans managed to get 52.

    But as much of the country is stunned by the Michigan city’s dangerous, effectively poisoned water supply, congressional Republicans want to fight the White House now on limiting the EPA’s power and scaling back the Clean Water Act?

    http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

    goddam, Repugs are ing assholes.



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    another take:

    Still Determined To Poison You, GOP Fails To Override Obama Veto Protecting Clean Water

    In a stunning display of clueless arrogance Mitch McConnell’s Senate Republicans moved forward with a vote to override President Obama’s veto of a bill that would have killed the EPA’s new clean water rule. Republicans failed to get enough votes to override the veto.

    The crisis in Flint has taught Republicans nothing. Republicans originally tried to cut the new clean water rules before the Flint crisis became a national story, but after Flint, a responsible Senate majority might have reconsidered gutting clean water rules after hundreds of children were sickened with lead poisoning in an American city due to contaminated water.
    The Republican majority in the Senate is owned by corporations and big business. It doesn’t matter to them if the American people are denied access to clean drinking water. The Senate Republican maneuver to kill new clean water rules was all about enabling polluters. Republicans are determined to make sure that people are not guaranteed access to clean water.

    http://www.politicususa.com/2016/01/...ean-water.html



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    EPA regional head will resign in wake of Michigan water disaster


    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/head...e+Raw+Story%29

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    Republicans Laughably Try to Blame Democrats For Flint Water Poisoning

    The Republican wars against clean water and the EPA are nothing new.

    Republicans are trying to get out of the Flint water crisis’ clear denouncement of their failed ideology by blaming the Democrats for corrupting the EPA.
    Nice try, but o reality. For years, Republicans have been waging a war against the EPA and clean water rules.


    https://twitter.com/rkylesmith/status/689932869674897411/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


    They also tried to redefine what can be dumped in the water and which water it can regulate at all:

    The bill cuts funding for the EPA by $718 million, or 9 percent, and caps staffing levels at the agency to 15,000, the lowest level since 1989.


    EPA provisions in the 2016 spending bill are very similar to those Republicans proposed last year when they looked to cut funding for the agency by 9 percent, cap staffing levels and block a handful of potential agency rules.

    Mind you the EPA in 2015 was already operating with staffing at 1989 levels and with a $60 million dollar budget cut, thanks to Republican hostage holding the prior year and President Obama had asked for a $500 million increase in funding for the EPA.In May of 2015, Republicans fought against the EPA’s pending water rule:

    Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) offered an amendment Thursday that would defund a pending Environmental Protection Agency water rule, but quickly withdrew it after a fellow Republican warned it could hurt a crucial bill.

    The EPA is expected to release a final rule soon that would redefine which ponds, wetlands, streams and other waterways are covered by the Clean Water Act. Republicans, however, contend the rule would be a massive land grab.

    Senate Republicans are considering an authorization bill that would block the rule and give the EPA specific instructions for rewriting it. The House voted last week to stop the implementation of the rule.

    In November of 2014, when they took total control of Congress,Republicans announced that the EPA was a top target for them.

    Senate Republicans are gearing up for a war against the Obama administration’s environmental rules, identifying them as a top target when they take control in January.

    The GOP sees the midterm elections as a mandate to roll back rules from the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies, with Republicans citing regulatory costs they say cripple the economy and skepticism about the cause of climate change.

    Blaming the EPA for their own failures is nothing new for Republicans. It’s part of their paradigm of making sure to be so incompetent at governing that people lose faith in government, and then buy their arguments to let them make a profit off of people by privatizing what should be public.

    http://www.politicususa.com/2016/01/...iticus+USA+%29

    Typical Repug tactic: MISgovern badly, up and defund govt, then claim govt is too big and ed up.



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    APRIL 2014: In an effort to save money, Flint begins drawing its water from the Flint River instead of relying on water from Detroit. The move is considered temporary while the city waits to connect to a new regional water system. Residents immediately complain about the smell, taste and appearance of the water. They also raise health concerns, reporting rashes, hair loss and other problems.
    Dayne Walling was the mayor of Flint, Michigan from 2009-2015. Although the Flint mayor's office is a nonpartisan position, Walling is a member of the Democratic Party.

    BAM !!!

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    Dayne Walling was the mayor of Flint, Michigan from 2009-2015. Although the Flint mayor's office is a nonpartisan position, Walling is a member of the Democratic Party.

    BAM !!!
    You might want to read up on this before declaring "BAM !!!"

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    Dayne Walling was the mayor of Flint, Michigan from 2009-2015. Although the Flint mayor's office is a nonpartisan position, Walling is a member of the Democratic Party.

    BAM !!!
    BAM! rightwingnut ignorance exposed again.

    Repug emergency managers (unaccountable dictators) override elected officials. Flint has been dictated to by 4 emergency managers, continuity being respected, since 2011. The Dem mayor was totally rendered powerless, irrelevant.

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    America's lead poisoning problem isn't just in Flint. It’s everywhere.


    Most kids in one Alabama county test positive for lead poisoning


    Houston County, Alabama, is, in a lot of ways, an unremarkable place. It has just over 100,000 residents and sits in the southeast corner of the state, bordering Florida and Georgia. Median household income there is about $40,000, slightly lower than average for the state.

    But there is one way Houston County does stand out: In 2014, it reported the highest rate of lead poisoning in the nation of any counties that sent data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


    Houston County tested 12 children for lead poisoning in 2014, which it defines as kids who have more than 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. Seven of those tests came back positive.


    Nine counties nationwide told the CDC that 10 percent or more of their lead poisoning tests came back positive.

    Four of them are in Louisiana,

    two in Alabama, and the

    rest scattered across West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Oklahoma.


    http://www.vox.com/2016/1/21/1081100...ning-cities-us



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    Snyderly Whiplash absolving himself of accountability. You knew it was inevitable

    Michigan’s Snyder criticizes ‘culture in government’

    Gov. Rick Snyder on Friday continued to lay blame at the feet of state Department of Environmental Quality employees for failing to require Flint to add corrosion control chemicals to its river water that could have prevented lead from leaching into the drinking water supply.

    When Rick Snyder refers to problems with “government,” he’s specifically talking about Rick Snyder’s administration. The decisions that did so much damage in Flint were made by emergency managers appointed by the governor himself.

    Even the state Department of Environmental Quality employees Snyder is now blaming are employees who answer to him.

    At one point, he added, “Let’s look at the entire cultural background of how people have been operating” – which is to say, the culture of how people have been operating in Snyder’s own administration.

    “local” officials weren’t in a position of authority; Snyder’s emergency managers were making the decisions.

    a theme is starting to emerge: leading Republicans believe the Flint crisis is an example of the “culture in government.” Don’t blame Snyder, the argument goes, blame the more ideologically satisfying public sector in general.

    http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

    yep, govt is the problem, REPUG govt is the problem, sickening and killing Americans nationwide. ISIS?



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    Repug MISgovernance! Is there any other kind?
    Yep. Democrat misgovernance.

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    Costly repairs to water heaters, pipes may fall to Flint homeowners

    Replacing the water heaters, pipes and even the service lines to their homes that may have been destroyed by the city's water.

    And for now, it's unclear whether they will receive any help in covering those costs.

    The Flint River water's high chloride content wasn't treated as required, a state task force has reported, and is thought to have weakened the city's aging water distribution system, which contains a high percentage of lead pipes and plumbing. That is believed to have sent high volumes of lead into the city's drinking water.

    That corrosive Flint River water also is thought to have similarly damaged the pipes and appliances in homes throughout Flint.


    Homeowners could shoulder a burden of $4,000 or more to cover the costs of a new water heater, a new plumbing system featuring PVC piping that is not susceptible to corrosion, and a new service line connection, which is the most costly component because it involves excavation and piping that can extend up to 30 feet from the house to the street, according to Marc Edwards, a national expert on municipal water quality at Virginia Tech.


    Edwards has been leading a team of researchers in conducting water tests in Flint, and estimates that correcting the damage caused from corrosion to the water system will cost between $20 million and $200 million. The city says the replacement cost for an entirely new system could be $1.5 billion.


    Some residents, including Mays, have already gone through more than one water heater since the crisis began. There is also the worry that new appliances, such as dishwashers and washing machines, are vulnerable to corrosion from the water and will need to be replaced.


    Sergio Kapusta, a fellow at NACE International, an industry organization that develops corrosion prevention and control standards in Houston, says that "changing all the mains in the city will not really solve the problem for the homeowners" because the lead piping in these homes probably has been severely compromised. "The corrosion is not going away. It's still there," he says.


    Before homeowners do anything, they need to wait for the city either to correct sections of its system that are corroded or to replace the system.

    "If you just replace your section, you're still getting all the garbage from the city," he said.

    Kapusta, who teaches material science at Rice University, says that in the meantime the only option for a homeowner is to install a water purification system for basic needs and to drink bottled water.

    "There is not a cheap and easy solution, but it's all you can do until the city replaces the pipes," he said.

    While Flint residents wait, they also face an increased number of shut-off notices due to unpaid bills.

    In August, Genesee Circuit Judge Archie Hayman issued an emergency injunction to stop them, but last week finance director Jody Lundquist said the city will begin issuing water shut-off notices soon.

    Kristin Moore, a city spokesperson, said Flint has a legal obligation to bill for utility services,



    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...123-story.html

    Repug MISgovernance, it's all they do.


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    Detroit has some of the cleanest tap water in the world, why would someone voluntarily choose to switch to ty river water?

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    OCT. 15: The Michigan Legislature and Snyder approve nearly $9.4 million in aid to Flint, including $6 million to help switch its drinking water back to Detroit. The legislation also includes money for water filters, inspections and lab testing.

    NOV. 3: Voters elect newcomer Karen Weaver over in bent Mayor Dayne Walling amid fallout over the drinking water.

    DEC. 29: Snyder accepts the resignation of Department of Environmental Quality Director Dan Wyant and apologizes for what occurred in Flint.

    JAN. 5: Snyder declares a state of emergency in Flint, the same day federal officials confirm that they are investigating.

    JAN. 12: Snyder activates the Michigan National Guard to help distribute bottled water and filters in Flint and asks the federal government for help.

    JAN. 13: Michigan health officials report an increase in Legionnaires' disease cases during periods over the past two years in the county that includes Flint.

    JAN. 14: Snyder asks the Obama administration for major disaster declaration and more federal aid.

    JAN. 16: President Barack Obama signs emergency declaration and orders federal aid for Flint, authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate relief efforts.

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    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto...higan-36331514
    so flint has been back on detroit's water supply since October or are they still in the process of switching over?

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    Detroit has some of the cleanest tap water in the world, why would someone voluntarily choose to switch to ty river water?
    to save money, the Golden Calf of Repugs.

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    Detroit has some of the cleanest tap water in the world, why would someone voluntarily choose to switch to ty river water?
    Good question.

    Might even have been cheaper to stay with Detroit.

    If the switch wasn't to save money, why did it happen?

    http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2016/0...-records-show/

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