When is Snyder leaving? I am concerned for Michigan beyond the Flint policy. We don't know how much damage he has done since becoming Governor. This policy is just one example. We need a new governor before the level of malpractice by Snyder is known.
The involvement of the DEQ is corruption not incompetence. We have witnessed this level of corruption in North Carolina as well. People go along with it because they need their jobs. That is not an excuse to allow danger in people's lives, but, when the US EPA isn't moving rapidly into the corruption a government employee feels abandoned and lacks impowerment. What was occurring in Washington, DC was standard practice because they never thought the danger was off the scale. The negative feedback loop to MDEQ emboldened the governor and weakened the professionals.
Also, the poisoning continued past a one year policy. If the state insisted on a one year study, then clean water to the residents should have been well established before the switch to a Flint River water source.
Flint Doctor: 'No Other State Has Been Poisoned by Policy' (click here)
March 29, 2016
The involvement of the DEQ is corruption not incompetence. We have witnessed this level of corruption in North Carolina as well. People go along with it because they need their jobs. That is not an excuse to allow danger in people's lives, but, when the US EPA isn't moving rapidly into the corruption a government employee feels abandoned and lacks impowerment. What was occurring in Washington, DC was standard practice because they never thought the danger was off the scale. The negative feedback loop to MDEQ emboldened the governor and weakened the professionals.
Also, the poisoning continued past a one year policy. If the state insisted on a one year study, then clean water to the residents should have been well established before the switch to a Flint River water source.
Flint Doctor: 'No Other State Has Been Poisoned by Policy' (click here) March 29, 2016
Flint, Mich. — An official with Flint's water plant said Tuesday he had planned to treat the drinking water with anti-corrosive chemicals after the city began drawing from the Flint River but was overruled by a state environmental regulator.
Mike Glasgow, then a supervisor at the plant and now the municipal utilities administrator, said he received the instruction from district engineer Mike Prysby of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality during a meeting to discuss the final steps before Flint switched from the Detroit water system as a cost-saving measure in April 2014.
Glasgow said Prysby told him a year of water testing was required before a decision could be made on whether corrosion controls were needed, which the state DEQ has since acknowledged was a misreading of federal regulations on preventing lead and copper pollution. The omission enabled lead to leach from aging pipes and fixtures and contaminate tap water that reached some homes, businesses and schools....
