Flint Michigan Water

[Hawnjigs]

Depending on your news source(s) you may or may not know about switching the city's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River in an effort to save some buck$. If not, briefly, the result was that some of the CHILDREN tested had up to 450X the LEAD POISONING threshold in their bodies. Not to mention untested for toxins. How did this happen? I just joined over 570,000 petitioners calling for the ARREST of Michigan governor Rick Snyder. This might be a good opportunity for Conservatives(like I WAS) to examine the results of "modern" Republican party values.

[font=NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif]"When Governor Snyder took office in 2011, one of the first things he did was to get a multi-billion dollar tax break passed by the Republican legislature for the wealthy and for corporations. But with less tax revenues, that meant he had to start cutting costs.[/font]
[font=NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif]So, many things -- schools, pensions, welfare, safe drinking water -- were slashed. [/font]

[font=NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif]Then he invoked an executive privilege to take over cities (all of them majority black) by firing the mayors and city councils whom the local people had elected, and installing his cronies to act as "dictators" over these cities.[/font]

[font=NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif]Their mission? Cut services to save money so he could give the rich even more breaks. That's where the idea of switching Flint to river water came from."[/font]

 

[Fatman]

First I agree with everything you said as I've read a bunch of articles on it. BUT! and I have worked in the Environmental Engineering field so this isn't a left field statement, even when the water source was from Lake Huron that water even if it was filtered STILL went through all those lead pipes - so even before this news broke those folks were getting contaminated water.

If they go after Snyder they should also go after all the Realtors who had to have known about the lead pipe situation.

 

[goodtimesfishing]

FM- my understanding.....or I should say, what the media has pointed out is that the "chemical make up" of the water source is leaching the lead out of the pipes. Yes, the water was going thru those same lead pipes prior, however the make up of the previous water source did not "leach or attract" the lead out of the lead pipes.

I look at it kind of like lead in the old paint. If you sand, scrape, or lick the cured paint you are subject to lead contamination. However if left undisturbed it is not so hazardous. With the water situation, the old water source was not leaching the lead from the pipes at such a concerning amount. When they switched water source, the make up(chemical composition) of the new water is absorbing the lead and carrying it to your drinking glass......in other words, if they did not switch to the current water source, the amount of lead coming out your faucet would not be any where near the quantity of lead that is currently coming out the faucet.

 

[Hawnjigs]

Why Realtors ?

 

[Fatman]

Good times - in other words, if they did not switch to the current water source, the amount of lead coming out your faucet would not be any where near the quantity of lead that is currently coming out the faucet

But it was still coming out! Either way all these folks have been getting it, even in small amounts it would build up.

They sold homes knowing that water came through lead pipes - and how many of the homes there still have lead pipes inside the house?? Not trying to raise hackles but these folks have been getting it right along, and the Flint Water just made it worse.

 

[Hawnjigs]

Whats also disturbing is that the town is experiencing a Legionnaire's disease outbreak - 87 confirmed and 10 deaths since the water source switch.