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Was looking at a map of Flint and noticed that the City of Flint Water Plant is right next to three metal scrap yards. https://www.google.com/maps/place/43%C2%
by usefulcat 11y ago
Was looking at a map of Flint and noticed that the City of Flint Water Plant is right next to three metal scrap yards.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/43%C2%B003'25.2%22N+83%C2%B040'14.8%22W/@43.056993,-83.6729557,751m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 https://www.google.com/maps/place/43%C2%B003'25.2%22N+83%C2%...
- paulmd 11y agoIt's more that Flint is an industrial town and Dow has been polluting the river for 120 years. It's also not direct pollution per se, it's that the river is so polluted that it's crazy acidic and it's corroding lead out of the pipes. A compounding factor is that it's got all kinds of funky bacteria stuff going on, which can also accelerate the corrosion process.