Leaked Documents Undermine Official Story Of Flint Water Crisis

In 2011, Snyder ordered a state takeover of Flint’s government amid the city’s mountingfinancial woes. During its time in receivership, a series of Snyder appointees served as “emergency managers,” overseeing Flint’s government functions and finding ways to cut spending.
Two years later, one of those managers, Darnell Earley, implemented a plan to switch Flint’s water supply from the Detroit system to a new consortium and to use water from the Flint River in the interim. He claimed this would save $6 to $8 million, one city council member recalled to the Associated Press. The Flint River water proved toxic and Snyderhas said it will require a “long-term,” decades-long financial commitment to attempt to mitigate the damage to Flint children who drank the water.
But an email obtained by the Bill Johnson group and first reported by Motor City Muckraker suggests that the move might not have been necessary to reduce Flint’s water costs. Then-Detroit Water and Sewerage Department Director Sue McCormick proposed to continue providing water to Flint at a savings of $800 million over 30 years, or 20 percent less than the switch. In other words, Flint could have kept the Detroit water and still saved more money than it did. A spokeswoman for McCormick confirmed the email and reporting to ThinkProgress on Monday.

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minnie616 said:

Since late last summer ( 2015) I have been following the local Michigan news stories of how/why the city of Flint stopped buying city water from Detroit to save money and ending up using Flint River water with no anti-corrision agent which ended up leaching lead from old water supply pipes and causing many residents health problems from the elevated lead in the drinking .
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Leaked Documents Undermine Official Story Of Flint Water Crisis


According to following article Flint could have saved more money by staying with the Detroit city water rather than using the Flint River water as their source for city water.





Link to article with email from Director McCormick ( sent April 15, 2013) of Detroit City Water and Sewage

Leaked Documents Undermine Official Story Of Flint Water Crisis | ThinkProgress

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