Posted on 03/13/2016 3:34:54 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Burton never burdened their taxpayers for the switch over to PVC pipe, and in fact is saving local taxpayers $651,000 by switching over to water delivered by lead-free PVC pipes
Purposely held back from the good residents of Flint, Michigan by Democratic Party politicians landing like crows to carrion on their city before Tuesday’s Michigan primary seeking to turn public anger to Democrat votes, this little gem: it’s not the water that’s the problem, but the archaic, rusted, lead-letting iron pipes carrying water into Flint homes that is.
Nor did any rumpled-coat Detective Columbo have to go all the way to Washington, DC to find the solution for Flint’s water crisis. They only had to just go a stone’s throw away to the nearby City of Burton, whose citizens only seven miles away from Flint have an ongoing supply of healthy drinking water.
Another example of Republicans trying to keep black folks poisoned, unhealthy, and enslaved, and then rubbing it in their noses by comparison with a city overflowing with white privilege, Burton!
(No, I could not work in homophobia, gender discrimination or even glaciers yet. Must work on it a bit more.)
To say the water source in Flint was not a problem is simply idiotic. Switching over from Lake Huron to the Flint River was asinine and ill-advised. The state government, led by Rick Snyder, screwed up in every way imaginable. The decision to switch over was a decision made by the city’s emergency manager, appointed by Snyder. The MDEQ, administered by the state, completely failed in performing due diligence. And they all wore blinders for at least a year convinced that there was not a problem despite all the irrefutable evidence that the water was not potable.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis
“Flint built its first water treatment plant (now defunct) in 1917. The city built a second plant in 1952.[8] As with many other municipalities at the time, all of the service lines from the cast iron water mains to end users homes were constructed of lead, because it is relatively inexpensive, and easy to work. Lead pipes can leach lead into the water, especially if certain contaminants are present; the water from Detroit Water and Sewerage had been treated well enough that the leaching from the lead pipes was at levels considered acceptable by state and federal environmental protection agencies.”
I thought the Romans were the last to use lead pipes.
Flint had a governor appointed manager because they could not handle any of their own problems themselves. Everyone preferred that Flint govern itself.
Why not close down Flint and move everybody to Detroit? Plenty of land and the living is cheap.
Im sorry. I am not going to pay tax money to fix private plumbing in homes in Flint. I will fix my own house. Thank you. NO TAX PAYER MONEY TO FIX OLD PIPES IN PRIVATE HOUSES!! THEIR PROBLEM!!
This is what happens when the whiz kids in charge start worrying about things other than what they were elected to worry about.
Isn’t Flint where they had/have the art gallery and parking garage issues?
Burton never burdened their taxpayers for the switch over to PVC pipe, and in fact is saving local taxpayers $651,000 by switching over to water delivered by lead-free PVC pipes Purposely held back from the good residents of Flint, Michigan by Democratic Party politicians landing like crows to carrion on their city...
I cannot believe that Flint was the only Michigan city vulnerable to the lead problem.
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