Posted on 04/20/2016 7:45:39 AM PDT by John W
Three government officials were charged Wednesday in the lead-tainted water crisis that terrorized Flint, Mich.
Two officials with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and Flint’s laboratory and water quality supervisor were slapped with a slew of criminal charges, the state’s attorney general announced Wednesday.
Mike Glasgow, a supervisor at Flint's water plant, is charged with tampering with evidence and willful neglect of office. Prosecutors alleged he meddled with water tests so the results showed less lead than was actually present, MLive reported.
Stephen Busch and Mike Prysby — a district supervisor and a district engineer respectively in the state office — face multiple counts of official misconduct. Prysby also faces charges of conspiracy to tamper with evidence, tampering with evidence and engaging in treatment violation.
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And their bosses? Didn’t everyone all the way up to the Govt know about this?
Bring on the Stalinist/Maoist Designated Pigeon Show Trials.
When the truth becomes known, it will show that the order(s) came from elected dimmacrat officials.
The Governor there is Republican. He is the one they have in their crosshairs.
The local elected Democrat Mayor and Council were pushed aside by the financial emergency measures law. This call was made in Lansing.
I can believe it was.mainly these guys.
Think about how insular most technician jobs are. If you send a guy out to take samples and the samples clear, that generally ends the issue. It only takes a handful of people cheating their job to cause issues like these.
It would depend on whether they were told to have clear samples. This is Michigan.
The tainted samples were from home tests, where the pipes to the homes were leeching lead due to a change in the chemical makeup of the water.
And set to the task of cleaning this up. I believe simple filters at the tap will take care of the matter.
Not if the perps didn't tell them.
Any water drawn for sampling at the Flint water treatment plant river intake wouldn’t show significant elevated lead content. The lead was present in the alloy composition of the distribution and residential piping. The longer the water was in contact with the piping , the higher the lead content would become.
The sampling from the water treatment plant could have indicated a low pH (acidic) condition. The water delivered to the Flint water system, from the Detroit water system, had already been buffered to avoid acidic leaching issues. After switching water sources, water quality would dictate process monitoring, and remedial measures to compensate for any shortfall.
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