Snyder never spoke with the people of Flint or even went to view the river before pushing the Emergency Managers to move against the best interests of the Flint residents. Where Rich Snyder really loses his credibility is to realize the gross neglect of the simplest of details. There were no major effort that needed to take place to realize the Flint River was not an option for drinking water to anything living.
February 15, 2018By Leonard N. Fleming and Karen Bouffard
The picture to the left is actually of the surface waters of Flint River.
Gov. Rick Snyder (click here) is partly to blame for the Flint water crisis for failing to ensure a rigorous investigation by state agencies and for not declaring an emergency sooner, according to a new report from the University of Michigan.
The declaration from UM’s School of Public Health also casts criticism on the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for failing to “notify the public of Legionnaires’ disease outbreak and refusing to cooperate with (the Genesee County Health Department)’s investigation.”
The report — funded by the Bethesda, Maryland-based de Beaumont Foundation, five UM public health lawyers and the Network for Public Health Law — said the governor “bears significant legal responsibility” for his role over the state agencies in charge of protecting public health.
“The governor had adequate legal authority to intervene by demanding more information from agency directors, reorganizing agencies to assure availability of appropriate expertise where needed, ordering state agencies to respond, or ultimately firing ineffective agency heads,” the report stated. “But he abjured, either due to ignorance or willful neglect of duty.”...
The C.S. Mott Dam just 5 miles (8 km) downstream and west of Genesee forms C S Mott Lake and was completed in 1972 for recreational use. Local attractions along the lake include Crossroads Village, Stepping Stone Falls, and the riverboat Genesee Belle.
Flint is a city in Genesee County, Michigan.
"Eat Safe Fish Guide" (click here)
The pages to the left and below are from the "Eat Safe Fish Guide." The guide tells consumers how much fish is safe to eat from the Flint River in a single month.
Carp and Walleye upstream of the Mott Dam (on the Flint River) can be eaten four times a month. But, the fish downstream of the Mott Dam, namely Carp, Large Mouth Bass and Small Mouth Bass, can be eaten very carefully, like, really limited or only six times a year.
The fish in most of the Michigan rivers have limits on how often they can be consumed and how much.
One might ask, "What's the deal with this rationing of fish caught in the Flint River?" Well.
There are toxins in the river such as PCBs, PFOS (“perfluorooctanesulfonic acid”), and Mercury; or; Mercury in combination with PCBs.
The State of Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services publishes this document.
The point is the Flint River has been and is still polluted. There has been no real remediation for the pollution. The reason the fish are edible by humans at all is because the DOSES of fish is limited to reduce the danger to those that fish the Flint River.
Now, don't get me wrong there is a big difference between fishing the Flint River with the idea of "catch and release" and eating the fish from the Flint River. Heck, "catch and release" can happen all the time so long as a person wears gloves and washes their hands regularly. Just regular soap, anti-bacterial isn't necessary to avoid the toxins.
Rich Snyder had and has volumes of information within the very State of Michigan libraries and departments to detail the dangers of drinking Flint River water. There is no excuse. He is guilty of every aspect of crime regarding the Flint River.
