E-mails: Flint water plant was rushed into operation
Source: Detroit Free Press
Eight days before the Flint water treatment plant began pumping water from the Flint River for citizens to drink, a city official complained he was being rushed into starting up the plant too quickly.
I do not anticipate giving the OK to begin sending water out any time soon, Mike Glasgow, the city's laboratory and water quality supervisor, said in an April 17, 2014, e-mail to Michigan Department of Environmental Quality official Mike Prysby.
If water is distributed from this plant in the next couple of weeks, it will be against my direction. I need time to adequately train additional staff and to update our monitoring plans before I will feel we are ready."
The e-mail was among a huge batch of Flint water e-mails released Friday by the state government.
Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/02/12/e-mails-flint-water-plant-rushed-into-operation/80300220/
This just keeps getting better
Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)SpartanDem
(4,533 posts)"The emergency manager and most of the department heads ... never wanted to take advice from anybody who had experience. Everything was being driven to meet a timeline
I think their position was more to meet a deadline than to meet a certain quality of water (for) the residents of the city of Flint."
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2016/02/flint_water_supervisor_warned.html#incart_river_home
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Without Flint, fewer customers and revenue for Detroit.
Hope they bust the whole greedhead crew up to those who hired Snyder.