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Post by swamp on Dec 15, 2015 16:48:03 GMT -5
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Post by flamingo on Dec 15, 2015 17:36:24 GMT -5
I'd say I can't believe this took so long to figure out, but I've lived in Michigan and I've seen how slow government can be there.
This is awful.
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Post by mmhmm on Dec 15, 2015 17:47:04 GMT -5
This is horrible! I can't even imagine what parents in Flint must be feeling!
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Post by cael on Dec 15, 2015 17:52:34 GMT -5
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Post by MJ2.0 on Dec 15, 2015 18:04:26 GMT -5
So, so sad.
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Post by myrrh on Dec 15, 2015 18:10:20 GMT -5
Wow. Boiling water does not remove lead, it concentrates it. Who ever told the residents to do that was a moron. They should have been told to buy bottled water or install an under the sink RO system to help remove dissolved contaminants such as lead. And I'm uncertain how this water was allowed to be a drinking water supply when drinking water is required under EPA and state regulations to meet water quality standards.
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Post by OldCoyote on Dec 16, 2015 6:53:36 GMT -5
If you live in a older home, the lead levels probably exceed the levels from that of Flint Michigan!
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Post by happyhoix on Dec 16, 2015 13:16:07 GMT -5
yes. i'ts hard to believe this wasn't figured out sooner. All the cities I've lived in send a "water quality info packet" out in the mail every year comparing our tests to the federal standards. The article says Flint used to be connected to the Detroit water system and then in 2014 started drawing water directly from the river. So that would mean they've used that water somewhere between 1 - 2 years, and generally water samples are pulled quarterly, and there are usually lots of sampling points, plus you have to wait on the lab time - I could see how it might take this long to collect enough data. What I don't understand is how they take into account the high level of lead in the river while engineering the water treatment system to begin with (or maybe they didn't do any evaluations of the river water and that's the problem.) Should have been some additional metal reduction step on the influent, based on the quantity of lead that must be in the river water. Can't believe someone was advising them to boil the water. |
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