Gov. Snyder asks Obama to declare Flint a federal emergency/major disaster

[Octafish]

31. The governor seems to think a faucet filter will remove lead.

Which looks to bring up problems with his future criminal defense.

Flint filter delivery casts doubt on what Snyder said

Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press Lansing Bureau 10:29 a.m. EST January 15, 2016

LANSING -- Gov. Rick Snyder's statement Monday that he wasn't aware of a problem with lead in Flint's drinking water until about Oct. 1 has prompted questions about his office's role in quietly delivering 1,500 water filters to the city in August.

Snyder's statement also raises questions about the speed and scope of the state's response since Oct. 1 and why state officials did not immediately instruct Flint residents, on Oct. 1, not to drink the water without a filter. A 10-point plan for Flint water that Snyder released Oct. 2 said the state was making water filters and water testing available to residents, but did not include a warning not to drink the water without a filter.

Now, more than three months later, the Michigan State Police and other state officials have begun delivering bottled water and water filters door-to-door in Flint. Snyder declared a state of emergency in Flint and Genesee County over the water issue Jan. 5.

The drinking water became contaminated after Flint, while under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager, engaged in cost-cutting and switched from Lake Huron drinking water treated by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to Flint River water treated by a city plant. The state Department of Environmental Quality acknowledged that it failed to require Flint to add needed corrosion-control chemicals to the water, causing lead to leach into drinking water from pipes and fixtures.

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http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/01/12/why-did-snyder-help-bring-filters-flint-august/78673474/

FTR: Detroit's major newspapers have largely been away from the issue until recently. Curt Guyette of the Michigan ACLU (formerly of MetroTimes, "the alternative newsweekly&quot is a main investigator for this story.