Category: Public health
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Frontline reports Flint water plant foreman warned in 2014: ‘People are gonna die’
The sun rises over the Flint River on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019 in Flint. Jake May | MLive.com FLINT, MI — A foreman at the Flint water plant warned his sister that the city was not prepared to treat Flint River water in 2014, telling her, “It’s not safe. We’re not ready. People are gonna…
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Flint Water Crisis Worsens, City Spills 2 Million Gallons of Sewage Into Flint River
The Flint River is shown in downtown Flint April 20, 2016 in Flint, Michigan. Photo: Bill Pugliano (Getty Images) As if residents of Flint, Mich., haven’t endured enough when it comes to the city’s water supply, they now have millions of gallons of raw sewage to contend with. From MLive: The city dumped an estimated…
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Flint Schools Overwhelmed by Special Education Needs After Lead Crisis
Parent advocate Maxine Onstott, shown cuddling with her son Maximilliano, 6, said many families are having a hard time getting help for their children’s disabilities in the wake of the water crisis. —Brittany Greeson for Education Week Flint, Mich. Years after reports surfaced of alarmingly high lead levels in the water system, the toll of…
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Well water users warned, Air Force Academy finds toxic level of firefighting chemical
Air Force Academy firefighters training a quarter century ago released a torrent of toxic perfluorinated chemicals that seeped into groundwater and flowed into Monument Creek, a 15,000-page Air Force report released Friday shows. A series of tests by Air Force researchers showed groundwater had 1,000 times the level of perfluorinated compounds considered safe by state…
