What a political football this is, and that’s what it all comes down to, dems want to blame the governor (r) but so far it looks like typical government bureaucracy screwed up and they are looking for someone to blame. The EPA and the DEQ fucked up big time.
The lead pipes have been there since the beginning leaching lead into peoples drinking water, then as these yutes that live in these shitties are known, they shit where they drink.
Years and years of polluting their river has made it so corrosive that the water eats lead, and it’s the republican governors fault and the rest of the state should bail them out?
A solution is costly and neither side wants to go there, just assign blame and move on.
Over on TE’s side of the state, where has she been?
Anonymous
January 22, 2016 9:21 am
Everywhere Democrats rule, death, destruction and chaos follow.
I’m sure that Affirmative Action played a big part in the incompetence. .
card802
January 22, 2016 3:40 pm
West, your article still tries to assign blame for 60 year old pipes and acid water caused by years of polluting their own water.
Flint, like many other big cities was a ticking time bomb, there are many more cities with the same problem as Flint.
The solution for Flint will cost millions, if the government is in charge, it will cost trillions.
“NRDC’s study found that relatively few cities are in outright violation of national standards for contamination of drinking water, but this is more a result of weak standards than it is of low contaminant levels.
For example, cancer-causing arsenic is currently present in the drinking water of 22 million Americans at average levels of 5 ppb, well below a new EPA standard for arsenic of 10 ppb that went into effect in 2006.
Yet scientists now know that there is no safe level of arsenic in drinking water.
(The EPA found that a standard of 3 ppb would have been feasible, but industry lobbying and concerns over treatment costs prevailed over public safety.) Many cities failed to meet the EPA’s “level of concern” for various contaminants that are not yet regulated.
Our study yielded another broad truth about the nation’s drinking water “treatment trains”: many cities show an increase in the frequency of periodic spikes in contaminant levels, indicating that the World War I-era plumbing and water treatment facilities still widely employed may be inadequate to handle contaminant spills or even the basic daily contaminant loads produced by our heavily industrialized, densely populated cities. And spikes above the EPA’s standards generally don’t trigger a violation; usually only an average level over the standard is considered a violation.”
See? It’s a numbers game and lobbyist dictating what government safe levels are, Flint’s situation is purely political, our elected representatives don’t care about the children as much as they want to assign blame.
Hope@ZeroKelvin
January 22, 2016 3:45 pm
Why is the infrastructure of liberal Dem controlled cities so crappy?
Aren’t they always passing water bonds or school bonds or some crap?
Where is the money going?
Why am I asking such a stupid question?
Anonymous
January 23, 2016 12:01 pm
Why does the Mafia get involved in hauling garbage?Ask Tony Suprano
EL Coyote
January 23, 2016 2:20 pm
With all the porn topics lately, I thought this would be about Larry.
Tomorrow’s news today: California suffering from worse drought since Nestle’s stole the water to sell to Flint.
What a political football this is, and that’s what it all comes down to, dems want to blame the governor (r) but so far it looks like typical government bureaucracy screwed up and they are looking for someone to blame. The EPA and the DEQ fucked up big time.
The lead pipes have been there since the beginning leaching lead into peoples drinking water, then as these yutes that live in these shitties are known, they shit where they drink.
Years and years of polluting their river has made it so corrosive that the water eats lead, and it’s the republican governors fault and the rest of the state should bail them out?
A solution is costly and neither side wants to go there, just assign blame and move on.
Over on TE’s side of the state, where has she been?
Everywhere Democrats rule, death, destruction and chaos follow.
Earth to Anonymous: The governor of MI is an (R).
@Card: Here’s what really happened:
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/21/what-snyder-knew-flint-email-dump-shows-attempts-shift-blame
I’m sure that Affirmative Action played a big part in the incompetence. .
West, your article still tries to assign blame for 60 year old pipes and acid water caused by years of polluting their own water.
Flint, like many other big cities was a ticking time bomb, there are many more cities with the same problem as Flint.
The solution for Flint will cost millions, if the government is in charge, it will cost trillions.
“NRDC’s study found that relatively few cities are in outright violation of national standards for contamination of drinking water, but this is more a result of weak standards than it is of low contaminant levels.
For example, cancer-causing arsenic is currently present in the drinking water of 22 million Americans at average levels of 5 ppb, well below a new EPA standard for arsenic of 10 ppb that went into effect in 2006.
Yet scientists now know that there is no safe level of arsenic in drinking water.
(The EPA found that a standard of 3 ppb would have been feasible, but industry lobbying and concerns over treatment costs prevailed over public safety.) Many cities failed to meet the EPA’s “level of concern” for various contaminants that are not yet regulated.
Our study yielded another broad truth about the nation’s drinking water “treatment trains”: many cities show an increase in the frequency of periodic spikes in contaminant levels, indicating that the World War I-era plumbing and water treatment facilities still widely employed may be inadequate to handle contaminant spills or even the basic daily contaminant loads produced by our heavily industrialized, densely populated cities. And spikes above the EPA’s standards generally don’t trigger a violation; usually only an average level over the standard is considered a violation.”
See? It’s a numbers game and lobbyist dictating what government safe levels are, Flint’s situation is purely political, our elected representatives don’t care about the children as much as they want to assign blame.
Why is the infrastructure of liberal Dem controlled cities so crappy?
Aren’t they always passing water bonds or school bonds or some crap?
Where is the money going?
Why am I asking such a stupid question?
Why does the Mafia get involved in hauling garbage?Ask Tony Suprano
With all the porn topics lately, I thought this would be about Larry.
Tomorrow’s news today: California suffering from worse drought since Nestle’s stole the water to sell to Flint.
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/01/flint-residents-told-that-their-children-could-be-taken-away-if-they-dont-pay-for-citys-poison-water.html