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I’d say the people who handled the switchover, state engineers, were likely liberals, not that it matters. It’s not as if treating the water incorrectly was a c
by uxp100 8y ago
I’d say the people who handled the switchover, state engineers, were likely liberals, not that it matters. It’s not as if treating the water incorrectly was a cost saving measure, they just screwed up.
- Gibbon1 8y agoGov Rick Snyder is a conservative that appointed managers to run Flint and they are the ones that did that. Sorry
- uxp100 8y agoThe managers are the ones who handle water treatment? Switching from detroit water to flint river water was perfectly safe, if phosphate levels and/or ph was matched (or other approaches to manage the protective layer of minerals inside lead service lines). Detroit ends it's contract with flint, flint moves to water from the flint river, change in water chemistry has disastrous effects (not just lead). Are you saying instead of engineers screwing up the water treatment (failing to match new water to old) the city managers told them to let the water chemistry change? Do you have any evidence of that?
- Gibbon1 8y agoThe Republican manager appointed by the Republican governor told them there was no budget for that and they'd be fired if they didn't comply.