E-mails: Flint water plant was rushed into operation

[SpartanDem]

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/

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This just keeps getting better

[Judi Lynn]

1. Glad this info. came out. Very interesting. Thanks. n/t

[SpartanDem]

2. Interesting observation from a council member about the plant opening

Flint City Councilman Scott Kincaid said he's not surprised that Glasgow issued the warning or that the warning wasn't heeded by the state.

"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]

3. k and r..nt

[Octafish]

4. Rush to privatize Detroit water system.

Without Flint, fewer customers and revenue for Detroit.

Hope they bust the whole greedhead crew up to those who hired Snyder.