Emails: Wide support on Flint switch from Detroit water

[SpartanDem]

Source: Detroit News

It’s viewed by many as the first in a string of bad moves that set Flint on its course toward nearly two years of water contamination and public health fears.But at the time the city officially opted to part ways with Detroit’s water system, many of the high-level players in the decision-making process were on board with the idea.

Early in 2013, with Flint under the control of an emergency manager, the city faced the decision of separating from its longtime water supplier and striking out on a new venture with other local city and county governments. If it could land Flint, the Karegnondi Water Authority would be in a position to build its own water line to Lake Huron and have local control over its water destiny.

New documents released by the state of Michigan this week show nearly everyone not linked with the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department approved of the split. Those communications also offer some new light on moves behind the scenes to determine where Flint would get its water while the Karegnondi project was under construction.'

An April 2013 letter from Flint Emergency Manager Ed Kurtz to Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr shows the financial reasoning behind the northern city’s breakaway. Kurtz took issue with how DWSD officials had portrayed the costs of the Karegnondi project to Flint residents over 30 years.





Read more: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/02/26/flint-water-decision/80966718/

[rladdi]

1. This is the thought process of the Republicans go as cheap as you can. Screw the

citizens as much as we can. So hoping the FBI indicts many Republicans but as history proves they won't be.

[WinkyDink]

2. Gee, toadies and lackeys are in govt jobs. Who knew?

[Chicago1980]

3. Didn't the lead leaching into the water supply come more from not treating the Flint River water?

[Festivito]

5. Yes. It appears that instead of treating more acidic river water more, they treated it less..

than the already treated and much less acidic lake water they would receive from Detroit's supply. Usually Calcium is added to the water that creates a calcium coating inside pipes. This coating was eaten, the pipes started to eaten, the added chlorine was eaten by that freed metal poop that lowered the effectiveness of the chlorine to kill bacteria. That's how I see it. It's a mess.

[LiberalArkie]

6. Yes, they did not want to pay for the chemicals that inhibited the leaching of the lead from the

pipes but did put in a cheaper chemical that accelerated the leeching of the lead.

[Festivito]

4. This like most of Gov Snyder's decisions are either murky or not revealed at all. eom