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Home » How Michigan’s bureaucrats created Flint water crisis​

How Michigan’s bureaucrats created Flint water crisis​

January 1, 2016
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New scientific testing raises new questions about whether Flint’s water system was the source of a local Legionnaires’ outbreak.

One year later, and more than six months before Governor Rick Snyder intervened to reconnect Flint to the Detroit water system in October 2015, the Flint City Council had voted to “do all things necessary” to do so. The problem was that their vote was merely symbolic: the city was under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager, who said the council’s vote to rejoin the system to the tune of $12 million per year was “incomprehensible.”

It would take two external scientific studies, whistleblowers, and a doubling in the number of children with elevated lead levels in their blood before the City Council’s vote was honored.

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Source: Fortune

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