3 thoughts on “Cracked: 4 Reasons the Flint Water Crisis is Worse Than You Realize”
"They weren't testing the water in the homes. Instead of going to where people were getting the water, after it traveled through (some) 550 miles of pipes with no corrosion control, they were testing at the (water treatment) facility."
The freakin' Federal regulation, [ the Lead and Copper Rule – 40 C.F.R. 141.86 ], clearly and unambiguously requires testing of at the cold water tap in the consumer's kitchen or bath. All the maths are there on sample sizing and locating to avoid the should be felons from trying to scam the system. Looking at you Rick Snyder.
Wow, thanks, I needed that. I was beginning to feel that the problem was under control now that the FBI (lead by a Bushie) and a congressional committee (chaired by a GOPer) were going to get in there and make it right, haw haw. Elijah Cummings won't be able to do much, but he will be well positioned to dispense righteous scorn and biblical calumny against the morans who did this.
April lives a half-hour from Flint and draws her water from a different source. It still put her in the hospital, she said. "I'd lived there for two weeks when I ended up hospitalized for a massive kidney infection and kidney stones. I had to have surgery in order to have the kidney stones removed. It was the worst experience of my goddamn life."
Although she knows her community doesn't have lead-tainted water, she does know of at least one other resident who had identical symptoms after a month of living there. "I shower, I brush my teeth with it. But I'm distrustful of the water. I can empathize with what the folks are going through in Flint, even just to a small degree, because I am afraid of the water I have. I won't even make ice with the tap water. … I started buying bottled water, I switched over to getting gallon jugs, and I haven't had any issues with my kidneys since then."
"They weren't testing the water in the homes. Instead of going to where people were getting the water, after it traveled through (some) 550 miles of pipes with no corrosion control, they were testing at the (water treatment) facility."
The freakin' Federal regulation, [ the Lead and Copper Rule – 40 C.F.R. 141.86 ], clearly and unambiguously requires testing of at the cold water tap in the consumer's kitchen or bath. All the maths are there on sample sizing and locating to avoid the should be felons from trying to scam the system. Looking at you Rick Snyder.
Wow, thanks, I needed that. I was beginning to feel that the problem was under control now that the FBI (lead by a Bushie) and a congressional committee (chaired by a GOPer) were going to get in there and make it right, haw haw. Elijah Cummings won't be able to do much, but he will be well positioned to dispense righteous scorn and biblical calumny against the morans who did this.
Oh. For. Fuck's. Sake.