‘How many more Flints out there?’ Scientists concerned over official neglect
RT.com
27 Feb, 2016
As the Senate considers funding to repair the water supply in Flint, Michigan and other US cities, new revelations of official neglect that led to lead poisoning have surfaces. Scientists who discovered the problem have little faith in the authorities.
Emails released by Governor Rick Snyder’s office show that top aides urged switching Flint back to Detroit’s water system in October 2014, after General Motors complained that the city’s heavily chlorinated water from the Flint River was corroding their engine parts. The switch to Flint River took place in April that year, and was ordered by the city’s state-appointed emergency manager as a cost-cutting measure.
The governor’s chief legal counsel Mike Gadola and Snyder’s environmental policy adviser Valerie Brader both urged the change, but no action was taken, Detroit News reported.
Flint switched back to Detroit water in mid-October 2015, after doctors and scientists warned the public about dangerously high levels of lead in the water supply. The contamination occurred as the Flint River water combined with chloride disinfectants and corroded the untreated lead pipes in the city’s system.
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