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That s huge for my bottom line. what s in your wallet? 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 ....
Rick schneider problem specifically, because under him, they knew lead levels was rising rapidly in flint s water months before they took action. they could see it in test results heading into the summer. they could see it even earlier in february, in alarmed letters from the federal epa to the state of michigan. this is a message from the epa to two different officials in rick snyder s environmental agency. they re dated last february, february 26, 2015. this is a little less than a year after flint had switched over its water. the epa writes, quote, the main purpose of my e-mail is to alert you to the high lead levels reported to a citizen yesterday by flint water department. the epa says, quote, this goes back to what you and i were talking about yesterday, that the different chemistry water is leaching out contaminants. so rick snyder s government got that news from the federal epa in february and they did not say a word about it to the public for the better part of a year. ....
Payers could afford 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 just for show city council and yeah, 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 disaster, counting that guy, counting and you count the guy who signed the order to switch the water and signed the assurance that the water from the new source would be safe, all in all, we have tracked three emergency managers who had a role in this mess, all of whom replaced locally elected officials, and all of whom reported just to governor rick snyder. plus there s the state environmental agency which reports to governor snyder. plus we have the state health agency which found evidence of elevated lead levels in flint s human beings over the summer while the state publicly maint ....
The snyder administration s own data, which showed the levels of lead in blood tests in flint going up. the professor has now posted new documents that were obtained from the state through the freedom of information act request. those documents include this one from a michigan state health worker who wrote to her colleagues in july, quote, there does appear to be a higher proportion of elevated blood levels last summer compared to usual. and again in september, from another health worker, sounds like there might be more to this than we learned previously. yikes. literally that word is in the foia document. yikes. so that was what was going on inside the halls of governor snyder s administration, internally, while the town of flint was being poisoned, and while the governor and his administration s public was that everything was fine. back in march, as they were coming up on a year since they made the switch in flint s water when flint water was already showing signs of being seriously ....
Yikes. so that is what was going on inside the halls of governor snyder s administration internally while the town of flint was being poisoned and while the governor and his administration s public face was that everything was fine. back in march as they were coming up on a year since they made the switch in flint s water, when flint water was already showing signs of being seriously dangerous and protests over the water had already started, even though people didn t yet know how bad the problem was, in march, this past march, march 2015, the neutered little flint city council, one of the vestigial reminders of elected representative government in the town of flint since governor snyder took away their local control, the neutered city council voted 7-1 this past march that the city should undo the water switch. they should go back to their old safe, clean water. but the city council was just window dressing at that point. they were just a reminder of what democracy used to be, because ....