Corrupt water meters? Where is the investigation and rebates to residents?

September 13, 2018
By Monique Judge

As of Thursday, (click here) the people of Flint, Mich., have been without a clean and stable water system they could trust for 1,604 days. The city’s water service lines are in the process of being replaced, but experts have said even that improvement comes with the danger of reintroducing lead into the water supply. The city and the state continue to bicker back and forth over who is the baddest, and all the while the people are the ones who continue to suffer.

In the midst of all this madness, a city official recently revealed that the Flint is unable to account for where the 12 million gallons of water that run through the city’s pipes each day is going.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a plan that would allow the city to replace thousand of water meters, Michigan Radio reports. Flint Chief Financial Officer Hughey Newsome told the station that the new meters will help the city improve water bill collections and reduce water theft. He then admitted that the city has no idea where all the water being used is going.

“If you think about the 12 million gallons per day of water that flows through the water system; we can’t account for all of that water,” Newsome said.

Manafort lawyers have tried plea deals before. Twice before. Maybe the third is the charm now that Manafort knows he is convicted. 

Columbia Gas Company states it is conducting safety checks, Someone is going to prison. Deregulation is probably the culprit. Massachusetts is staring to look like Texas. Cut costs to the bone  and the public pays the price. California explosion was like this a few years back and it was due to old infrastructure. Deregulation causes neglect and thus what happens. The petroleum industry needs to end their reign over USA utility power. Massachusetts has great offshore wind maps. There isn’t much that can go wrong if wind power is deregulated. I don’t know wind is all that regulated in the first place. Good-bye methane.

Rick Perry is destroying regulations. Check the Department of Energy. Columbua pushed it to far. Pushing the infrastructure too far is gross negligence. There is no excuse for it. Any deregulation will facilitate this level of danger, but, there is no excuse for it. Either Columbia knows what they are doing or they don’t. I expect to see perp-walks.

Massachusetts Governor Baker states the company response was adequate. Really?