Justice Department Investigating Toxic Tap Water In Flint
High lead levels in Flint's water could have harmed thousands of city kids.
"Days after Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) apologized for toxic tap water in the city of Flint and accepted the resignations of multiple state officials, the U.S. Justice Department said it has opened an investigation into what went wrong.
"In an effort to address the concerns of Flint residents, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District is working closely with the EPA on the investigation into the contamination of the city of Flint's water supply," Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan, told HuffPost on Tuesday.
The Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which helped expose the poisoning of Flint's water, was the first to report the Justice Department investigation, highlighting it as an "unusual step."
Last week, a task force appointed by Snyder squarely blamed the high lead levels in Flint's water on the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. The agency failed to address the water's corrosiveness after switching the city's water source to the Flint River as a cost-saving measure in 2014. At the time, Flint was under the authority of an emergency manager appointed by the state of Michigan..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/flint-michigan-water-lead_us_568be5abe4b014efe0dbb159
See What Flint’s Poisoned Water Looks Like
"The water's getting darker
A shocking image from a new study in Flint, Mich., where significant levels of lead have been found in the water supply, depicts the severity of the crisis, as the water color ranges, chronologically, from yellow to orange to red.
The bottles contain water drawn from a home in Flint. The water in the two bottles on the far left were drawn on Jan. 15, the next was drawn Jan. 16 and the water on the far right was drawn on Thursday. The study was conducted by Virginia Tech scientists at FlintWaterStudy.org..."
http://time.com/4189116/flint-michigan-water-study-photo/
Flint, Michigan, Is Charging Its People Over $100 a Month for Poisoned Water
"FLINT, Mich. — The city of Flint still charges its constituents for water. Water that a team from Virginia Tech revealed to be toxic, in many cases. Water that runs yellow and brown and smells like sewage even when it doesn't. And according to Flint residents who spoke to Mic this weekend, that water costs between $100 and $200 a month.
"I noticed the middle of July 2014 we were getting $150 water bills," longtime Flint resident Tyrone Wooten told Mic while he picked up a case of water for his wife and two kids at Flint Fire Station 3. That was a year before the Virginia Tech team arrived to check the water and discovered high lead content and, in extreme cases, enough contaminants for the EPA to dub it "toxic waste."..."
http://mic.com/articles/132832/flin...undreds-a-month-for-poisoned-water#.LFBVvuxRl
The Poisoned Kids of Flint, Michigan: A Social Media Timeline of an Unraveling Man-Made Disaster
"Over the past two weeks, national news outlets have finally zeroed in on the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan, questioning how a major American city could have poisoned its residents with lead-laden water for months on end.
With the toxic water, and the dysfunctional state response, now leading the evening newscasts, even President Barack Obama has weighed in with questions of why residents’ pleas for help were dismissed, or ignored.
Indeed, a quick scan of recent social media posts captures not only the human cost and public anger surrounding the water crisis, but also reveals that people have been begging for help since early 2015..."
https://www.the74million.org/articl...a-timeline-of-an-unraveling-man-made-disaster
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DISGUSTING!!! :stormingmad:
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