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Old 01-27-2016, 04:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Boreas View Post
Which may - eventually - solve one of the several problems with the water, that of lead contamination, but it will do nothing to address the problems caused by a century of pollution by heavy industry that has made the water so caustic that it eats the pipes in the first place and has added a blanket of heavy metals on the riverbed. And then there's the Legionnaires Disease outbreak that's been traced to the river water.
I think they've gone back to Lake Huron water with the added chemical to treat the pipes (which had been used in the Lake Huron water before the stupid change to Flint river water).
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