Flint faces significant “long-term challenges” that need to be tackled to assure safe drinking water, according to a strongly-worded memo from Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, delivered today to Gov. Rick Snyder and Flint Mayor Karen Weaver.
The letter states the city’s water system is too big for the demand, inadequately staffed, inadequately resourced, in need of professional expertise, and in need of a realistic financial plan in light of high water charges residents are shouldering.
Addressing those problems “goes well beyond the immediate crisis problems we have all been working so hard to address,” McCarthy states....
http://www.eastvillagemagazine.org/2016/06/16/epa-identifies-significant-challenges-to-long-term-flint-water-quality-in-memo-to-snyder-weaver/
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