The City Council, at its Sept. 11 meeting, approved a resolution authorizing Gentry s mayor to enter into an agreement with Southwestern Electric Power Co. and Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. to accept a donation of land for the future location of a city wastewater treatment plant.
on friday night, we brought you the utterly, hair raise, blood boiling, horrifying story of flint, michigan, where the drinking water got poisoned with lead, starting next year when the rick schneider administration allowed that town to switch from getting its water pumped up from detroit to instead drawing it directly from the flint river. it was cheaper. there s nothing inherently wrotening with getting your drinking water from a river, lots of places do it. but the chemical properties make it more corrosive. you have to give it special anti-corrosive treatment before you send it coarsing through the pipes and into the homes of your town. if you don t do that, the co-rosive river water eats tlour your pipes and the sauders holding your pipes together and the people get lead poisoning. we talked to a heroic pediatrician from flint,
but the city council was just window dressing at that point. they were just a reminder of what democracy used to be, because the real person in charge of flint by then was the emergency manager appointed by governor rick snyder to run the town instead of its elected official ps. when they took that vote to go back to their clean water source, the emergency manager called that decision, that vote, quoting incomprehensible. he said, quote, it s incomprehensible to me that seven members would woont to send more than $12 million a year to the system-serving southeast michigan. even if flint payers could pay it, water from detroit is no safer than water from flint. wrong! wrong a billion times over. but of course, he was the emergency manager. he got to decide what flint did, not the juster-for-show city council. so they may have voted to switch back and save the kids of flint, but that was dead on arrival with rick snyder s emergency manager who kiboshed the whole thing. in this disas erk