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Ed Pawlowski

On 12/2/2016 8:18 PM, wrote:

This is not a water crisis, it is a pipe crisis and that pipe is
almost 100 years old. Where were the people of Flint when they were
rolling in UAW dough?
The certainly were not spending money on replacing 60 year old lead
pipe. Maybe the lead from the pipes just made them stupid all their
lives. This did not happen in 2014, it was just discovered in 2014.
Granholm OKed the Genessee water project 4 years earlier and the Flint
water manager decided to save a penny a thousand gallons by not using
the sequestering agent that was in Detroit water (another city with a
lot of lead pipe.)
I wish people would actually read more about this.

Pipe crisis and money crisis.

Probably a situation like out town had. We should replace some pipes
and to do so, we have to raise the rates a bit. Oh no, we can't afford
that, the seniors are broke, etc, etc. Sure you can put off a pipe
repair for today.

Finally, the citizens realized the severity of our system and a group
sold the citizens on the idea we have to pay a bit more now or be doomed
in a few years. Rates were increased, pipes replaced, filtration
improved. We can actually drink the water now. Crisis avoided but the
work should have started 20 years earlier.