tinydancer
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- Oct 16, 2010
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You are becoming tiresome with your lies. Switching to Flint River was only forced on the people of Flint by Detroit Water and Sewage throwing a hissy fit because Flint signed a long term contract with KWA.
Who cares? Sourcing the water from Flint River was not the problem. The problem was that the guy in charge decided "Well, we gots some water now, let's just use the same treatments we used before, and not even bother to ask ourselves if this is the right way to do things, because new treatment regimens would be more expensive."
Hedman and the EPA could have forced the DEQ to treat the water. She didn't. The EPA owns this debacle.
"An EPA water expert, Miguel Del Toral, identified potential problems with Flint’s drinking water in February, confirmed the suspicions in April and summarized the looming problem in a June internal memo. The state decided in October to change Flint’s drinking water source from the corrosive Flint River back to the Detroit water system.
Critics have charged Hedman with attempting to keep the memo’s information in-house and downplaying its significance.
As soon as the lack of corrosion controls became apparent, state and federal officials should have acted to protect the public, said Virginia Tech researcher Marc Edwards, whose water analysis in 2015 helped uncover Flint’s lead contamination.
“At that point, you do not just have smoke, you have a three-alarm fire and should respond immediately,” said Edwards, who, along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, has obtained dozens of key documents related to Flint’s crisis through public record requests.
“There was no sense of urgency at any of the relevant agencies, with the obvious exception of Miguel Del Toral, and he was silenced and discredited.”
EPA stayed silent on Flint’s tainted water