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Old 01-29-2016, 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by finnbow View Post
I also read that the Michigan DEQ chose to use ferric chloride as a coagulant during water treatment to help remove organics, but that this anti-coagulant was known to be problematic for such pipes, particularly when the (essential) anti-corrosion treatment wasn't used.

Also, the Michigan DEQ deliberately discarded several high lead water samples whose inclusion with the other samples put Flint's water above the EPA action level for lead.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/14/us/fli...investigation/
A lotta people need to go to jail for this.
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