Flint water poisoning was covered up using ‘science’ to mislead the public while children were being destroyed

Tuesday, May 3, 2016
By Paul Martin

by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, May 03, 2016

It is turning out to be one of the biggest environmental scandals in modern history, complete with intrigue, suspense, political chicanery and even murder.

For nearly a year-and-a-half, officials in Flint, Michigan, along with state and federal environmental officials, covered up the fact that water tainted with grossly high levels of lead was being consumed by mostly poor, African-American residents – many with children who are now at risk of lead poisoning and lasting health problems.

The crisis began in April 2014, after city officials decided, in an effort to save money, to change the city’s water source from water treated by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (which came from Lake Huron as well as the Detroit River), to the polluted Flint River. At the same time, city water and environmental officials neglected to apply corrosion inhibitors, allowing dangerous amounts of lead to leach into the supply due to the highly corrosive water in the Flint River.

The leaching exposed an estimated 6,000–12,000 children to potential lead poisoning. Because the water source was changed, the percentage of Flint children with high levels of lead in their blood may have risen from about 2.4 percent in 2013, to as much as 4.9 percent in 2015, according to one study. In addition, some think that the poor water quality may also be responsible for an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease in the county, which has killed at least 10 people and affected dozens of others.

It should be noted that after Flint decided to switch to the Flint River from its back-up, residents began calling the city to complain about water color, taste and odor. Officials issued boil-water advisories after coliform bacteria was detected in August and September 2014. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, in an October 2014 statement, blamed cold weather, aging pipes and a population decline. One DEQ official, Stephen Busch, said that the city had taken appropriate actions to limit a recurrence of problems. The first real evidence that the water was corrosive came from officials with the General Motors plant in Flint, who reported that the water was corroding automobile parts. The plant stopped using Flint water in October 2014.

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