FBI joins Flint drinking water investigation

minnie616 said:

In the past the plant was not to treat the river as the main source ... Only to mix with Detroit City Water if / when a back up was needed.

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SheWolf said:

Synder has been lying to the people and telling them the water is safe, to keep drinking it, to keep bathing in it, etc. when it wasn't and he appears to have known it wasn't. He doesn't look concerned about the people of Flint, and they have practically been poisoned by his policies and lied to about it. He not only looks like a horrible governor, but a horrible person.

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Fenton said:

Where was the FBI when these Cities were being run into the ground by corrupt Democrats and their destructive policies ?

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Fenton said:

Focus, Cities run into the ground by corrupt Democats have poorly maintained infrastructure and are staffed with Emergency managers.

Were was all the concern for " the Children " during the decades of Democrat corruption and mismanagment that led to their crumbling infrastructure and budget issues ?
Face it, Liberal policies bankrupted these towns and now theyre doing everything possible to try and make the American tax payer pay to clean up their mess.

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Stopandthink said:

IIRC the river water was piped in four times a year to ensure the system worked and that the water passed quality standards

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So Flint just went ahead and switched to using water from a river in an area of the country infamous for industrial pollution without doing anything to check to make sure it wasn’t poisoned?

Yes, that seems to be what happened. When Flint piped its water in from Detroit, the Flint treatment plant was only used for backup purposes and was only operated four times a year. It’s not clear whether Flint water department employees even considered the possibility of major corrosion and lead leaching before the switch was made.

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Fenton said:

Life choices ?? You mean continuing to vote for Democrats when your cities and infrastructure are falling down around you ?

Claiming this is a GOP caused crisis ignores the last few decades of Democrat corruption and mismanagment that turned cities like Flint into financial basket cases

Detroit spent millions more than it took in for ten years and continued to offer up unsustainable public sector benifits

Those budget issues were why Emergency managers had to be appointed in the first place.

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Fenton said:

Yea, all the calls for Snyder's prosecution, Michael Moore calling it a crime scene, but its not about Politics.

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In a press conference today, Governor Rick Snyder—who very well may be to blame for the entire fiasco—said that from June 2014 (two months after Flint stopped taking water from Detroit) to November 2015 (a month after the stopped), Genesee County, which contains Flint, saw 87 cases of Legionnaire’s disease, with 10 of those being fatal. According to state Health and Human Services Department Director Nick Lyon, 45 cases were observed between June 2014 and March 2015, with seven of those being fatal. The other 42 were found May 2015 to November 2015, with three of those being fatal.

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beefheart said:

Well, more people dead in Flint from the water than dead in Benghazi.

But...why bring statistics into this.



10 People Have Died of Legionnaire's Disease in Flint, Where the Water is Poisoned

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Samhain said:

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There is your list of who's at fault. The Department of Public Works, the Finance Department, and Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam,
Inc.

The Department of Enviornmental Quality then signed off that everything was good in April of 2014.

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LANSING -- The State of Michigan announced Friday it has fired the head of the Department of Environmental Quality's drinking water unit over the lead contamination of Flint's drinking water supply.

Liane Shekter Smith, whose identity as the fired employee was confirmed by the Department of Technology, Management and Budget, is the first state employee to be fired over the public health crisis.

"Putting the well-being of Michiganders first needs to be the top priority for all state employees,” Gov. Rick Snyder said in a news release. “Anything less than that is unacceptable. The DEQ is working to change this culture and ensure mistakes that endanger our residents don’t occur again.”

The release said Smith was fired Friday after a disciplinary conference regarding performance. A departmental review of the actions of a second employee who was suspended last month are continuing, the release said.

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minnie616 said:

Well, it looks like the state has placed some of fault with The Department of Envirormental Quality . After a disciplinary conference the state fired the head of the MDEQ.



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State fires former head of DEQ drinking water unit

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Shekter-Smith, as head of MDEQ’s DWMA, had claimed the federal rules dictating water treatment to prevent lead poisoning were misinterpreted. Released emails, however, reveal she knew the Environmental Protection Agency was worried about the lead in Flint’s water last summer. In July, the EPA denied her request for a written statement saying Flint was in compliance with federal standards.

“Putting the well-being of Michiganders first needs to be the top priority for all state employees,” Governor Rick Snyder wrote in a statement released Friday announcing Shekter-Smith was “officially terminated.”

“Anything less than that is unacceptable. The DEQ is working to change this culture and ensure mistakes that endanger our residents don’t occur again,” the statement continued, without specifically mentioning the water crisis.

Though the statement did not directly acknowledge the lead contamination of the public’s water, the issue keeps bubbling up, months after the situation was first acknowledged in October.

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While government officials scramble to rid Flint's tap water of lead, victims are suing Gov. Rick Snyder, the former mayor, rank-and-file public employees and almost anyone else who may have had a role in supplying the troubled city with corrosive river water for 18 months. The lawsuits accuse them of violating civil rights, wrecking property values and enriching themselves by selling a contaminated product.

The batch of lawsuits hitting courtrooms currently also comes before the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have completed their investigation into whether there were criminal violations by public officials.

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