It took a week for the city to report it to the people. This is unforgivable. The map below is the Flint River watershed. There is water that runs into the Flint River from the land and then the Flint River runs into the Shiawassee River and that runs through Saginaw and Bay City and into Saginaw Bay.
That's enough. There are problems the residents have that have to be settled. They need a strong advocate that also can manage the city's services so they aren't traumatized every other week.
The people need to hold meetings to organize and RECRUIT competent person(s) to take care of their interests. There needs to be a referendum in the next ballot to begin the process of hiring a competent city manager that has knowledge and experience of bringing problems under control. The people are capable of it and need to get started. Don't take no for an answer. The city manager should answer to a committee of responsible and strong advocates for the residents. There need to be regular meetings with the city manager so the people know exactly what is improving. The people need to have a full voice in regard to the management of Flint until it is fixed. This is ridiculous.
I really don't get it. Perhaps others do, but, there are repeated incidents and that is because whoever is calling the shots aren't capable of doing their jobs. The Governor needs to be called and asked to step in to at the very least manage this emergency of the Flint River that could effect many.
The committee can be a non-profit and can have the entire city for members. The non-profit can apply for funding and run fundraisers. A 501(c)3 or 4 or separate committees each with a different designation. (c)3 can organize for city projects. The modern governments across the country use (c)3 for exactly that, city projects that have dedicated funds. (c)4 is a political non-profit for screening candidates, etc.
By Jay Connor
The city dumped an estimated 2 million gallons (lick here) of untreated sewage into the Flint River Sunday, Aug. 18, just months after officials warned wastewater infrastructure was fast approaching a “critical point.”
A partial report filed by the city with the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy on Tuesday, Aug. 20, says a “flash flood event” overflowed primary settling tanks at the city’s wastewater treatment plant on Beecher Road, sending raw waste onto the ground and into a storm sewer drain that discharges directly to the river....
