GOP Poisons Flint Michigan

[icenine]

Originally Posted by finnbow

From what I understand, they reintroduced the chemical that will ultimately again form a protective layer inside the pipes in about 6 months. It's the chemical that they chose to leave out for cost reasons when they switched to Flint river water.

Well at least it is not a total rebuilding.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

From what I understand, they reintroduced the chemical that will ultimately again form a protective layer inside the pipes in about 6 months

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.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

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).

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

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).

Ah! I hope so.

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Several Michigan Republicans have described the water crisis in Flint "a hoax."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...sis-is-a-hoax/

Very classy.

Hoax may not be the right way to put it. Political shitstorm derived from a bungled bureaucratic mess of poor communication / mis-communication / lack of appropriate action between govt' agencies might be a better way to put it. Here's some perspective:

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...lint/79438144/

Sadly, nothing terribly new about any of this. Anyone ever live in Georgia, for example? Want some Chattahoochee River water? When I was down there a few years back, there were days when the gov't was at least good enough to tell you there were days you couldn't drink the water coming out of your kitchen faucet.

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by finnbow

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).

Well address the cancer that will be casues among the population by this chemical at a later date.

Capitalism...isn't it wonderful? Industry gives us all cancer by polluting the water, land and airways, making a fortune doing it, then the opportunist medical industry bankrupts us all in a poor attempt to treat that cancer.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by whell

Hoax may not be the right way to put it. Political shitstorm derived from a bungled bureaucratic mess of poor communication / mis-communication / lack of appropriate action between govt' agencies might be a better way to put it. Here's some perspective:

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...lint/79438144/

Sadly, nothing terribly new about any of this. Anyone ever live in Georgia, for example? Want some Chattahoochee River water? When I was down there a few years back, there were days when the gov't was at least good enough to tell you there were days you couldn't drink the water coming out of your kitchen faucet.

This isn't about what happens when you let government do something. It's about what happens when government is basically overthrown by fiat.

[whell]

Originally Posted by Boreas

This isn't about what happens when you let government do something. It's about what happens when government is basically overthrown by fiat.

Did you read the News article? Not sure how you could read it and then draw that conclusion...unless that's the conclusion you WANT to draw.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by whell

Did you read the News article? Not sure how you could read it and then draw that conclusion...unless that's the conclusion you WANT to draw.

What don't you understand about the deliberate disregard of public health that Snyder and his "Emergency Managers" have demonstrated?

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by whell

Did you read the News article? Not sure how you could read it and then draw that conclusion...unless that's the conclusion you WANT to draw.

Yes, I read it. Did you?

There is no mention anywhere in the article where the lead found in children from other locales came from. Neither is there any mention of the lead levels found in the drinking water of those other cities as compared to Flint. Also, the article speaks of higher lead levels in certain zip codes in those other cities but it doesn't compare the lead levels in those cities as a whole to the levels in Flint as a whole.

Frankly, I think the article is deliberately deceptive.