What's the timeline on this Michigan lead poisoning?

[2pooped2pop]

It looks like they switched water supply in 2014?

When did they know there was a problem?
When did he put in those city managers And does it look like he put them in to cover this up?

It seems to have taken a very long time for them to ask for outside help. It looks like they didn't want anyone else in and were hoping to somehow just cover it up or something. To me the crime isn't so much that this happened but that it was allowed to continue just to save his own ass.

Anyone have some simple basics you can share?

[valerief]

1. I googled it for you. I used "Flint water timeline." You can try it.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/flint-water-crisis/bad-decisions-broken-promises-timeline-flint-water-crisis-n499641

After the switch, the corrosive Flint river water totally fucked up the pipes, so the pipes are fucked up even after they switched back to Detroit water.

[moondust]

2. Incompetence at best.

Appears to be all about money, which isn't surprising from Republicans. When altering a public utility like a city's water supply affecting thousands of people, I'd think you'd first want to do thorough testing to study the water itself as well as the condition of the pipes, pumps, and other infrastructure. But for that you'd need to use scientists and experts rather than political hacks and profiteers; too bad for anyplace under the control of moneygrubbing Republicans.

I can't imagine anybody would want to shower or bathe in that crap, much less use it for cooking.