How are we protecting the citizens of Flint from profiteers selling water filters?
How do we get the filters installed for the elderly and the poor, or frankly for any citizen who doesn’t have the means or
ability to install one?
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| don't want to assume anything. But have the legislators been briefed and asked to be at the press conference in Flint?
Dick
Were you able to connect and brief these guys?
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Hello Dan: Attached please find our emergency SDWA petition to U.S. EPA regarding the Flint
situation. Here’s a link to the release: Henry
Henderson, NRDC’s Midwest Director is the person to contact about this. He’s at hhencerson@arde.ors
and is cc’d here.
Rebecca Stanfield
Deputy Director
Midwest Program
Natural Resources
Defense Council
20 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 1600
Chicago, IL 60606
T 312.651.7910
M 773.454.0155
rsianfield @nric.are
NREC
Please save paper.
Think before printing.
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Importance: High
Revised Updates from yesterday’s e-mail to Dennis Muchmore, Harvey Hollins, and Nick Lyons. |
have added Allison Scott to give to the Governor for the 1:00 meeting today.
Thank you.
Per the ongoing issues in Flint concerning their drinking water, | would offer the following
recommendations. Let’s discuss.
Recommendation
Press Conference in Flint - Friday, October 2, 1:30 — Flint
Participants
Mayor of Flint
Dan Wyant — Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Nick Lyon — Department of Community Health
Susan Hedman — Region 5 Administrator or EPA
Harvey Hollins — Governor's office
Local Public Health Department
Announcement
Federal — State — Local action plan to address Flint Drinking Water
1. Chief Medical Officer speaking with Hurley.
2. All Flint schools water will immediately be tested to ensure that drinking water is safe.
3. Advisories will be disseminated recommending citizens flush your cold water pipes, use only
water from the cold water tap for drinking, cooking and especially for making baby formula.
4. Implementation of fully optimized corrosion controls in the Flint drinking water system.
5. Expanded water testing of at risk properties.
6. Offer water testing at no cost to Flint residents to assure water is safe.
7. Convene a safe drinking water “ Technical Review Advisory” to ensure best technology,
practices and science is being utilized, including EPA’s expertise and assistance from their
Office of Research and Development.
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8. Offer bottled water and premixed formula if test results indicate high levels of lead.
9. Accelerate water system improvements to address replacement of lead service lines.
Dan Wyant, Director
tt of Environmental Quality
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Importance: High
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004778
You will be receiving a meeting notice from Beth Emmitt for a meeting with the Governor this
afternoon. Listed below are areas that we should provide him an update on engagement; if not yet engaged,
then we need to engage asap.
1. Emergency management — similar to disasters, is there some form of action we can engage for this
situation to help manage
2. Chief Medical officer — should be speaking with Hurley
3. WIC-re water and formula — status update
4. Drain commissioner — how do we expedite KWA
Looking at a 1 pm meeting — let me know if you have questions on the above.
Thanks
ALS
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Thank you, you're always ahead of us. i don’t have any reservations about the PC, although as | mentioned | don’t see
any reason to have Mr. Sienko, as we have a ter notch professional in Eden Wells and certainly Tim and Geralyn if need
Quick recap on the interactions this week from the MDHHS side on the Flint water issue.
Today the City of Flint issued the attached “Lead Advisory” for residents to be aware of lead levels in drinking water and
issued suggestions from the Genesee County Health Department as to what residents could do to reduce risk. These
include:
-- flushing cold-water pipes by running water for approximately 5 minutes,
--using only water from the cold-water tap for drinking, cooking and making baby formula
--installing a water filter that is NSF-certified for lead removal.
We worked with the Genesee County Health Department throughout the week to get them in a more pro-active mode
to provide this guidance publicly and to encourage citizens to have the City test their water if they were concerned
about the quality of water at their home. The health department also issued this fact sheet
; on Thursday providing additional
information on the issue.
MDHHS epidemiologists continue to review the “data” provided by a Hurley hospital physician that showed an increase
in lead activity following the change in water supply. While we continue to review this data, we have stated publicly
that Hurley conducted their analysis in a much different way than we do at the department. Hurley used two partial
years of data, MDHHS looked at five comprehensive years and saw no increase outside the normal seasonal
increases. The Hurley review was also a much smaller sample than MDHHS data as ours includes all hospital systems in
Flint as well as outside laboratories.
We have also provide the attached data chart that outlines if the elevated blood lead levels were being driven by a
change in water, we would have seen the elevated levels remain high after the change in water source.
We have also communicated that for WIC beneficiaries in Flint with documentation of unsanitary water, they may be
able to receive ready to feed formula and have encouraged families to contact WIC to see if they are eligible for this
formula. SNAP beneficiaries are able to purchase bottled water with their SNAP funds.
Talking points from MDHHS are attached as well.
Thank you,
G
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( think this information is very helpful. It will not answer the main question about the quality of the water (DEQ is
working on that through Brad | believe), and the color and smell of the present water, but it does get us to the answers
to the less subjective issues. Frankly, the only way the issues will be totally resolved is when the KWA comes on line and
the water is perceived to be cleaner and healthier.
| am somewhat surprised that the leadership in Flint has not responded better to the community questions, which don’t
seem unreasonable at all. Seems like Harvey has a better network into some of the neighborhoods than the city
does. The KWA PR department definitely needs to do some outreach or they're headed down the same road as
DWSD. Do you know if they go out on a regular basis to the community and talk about the rates, costs, etc.?
Importance: High
All, Attached is a memo and water rate summary answering several of the questions raised by the Flint pastors. Please
let me know if you have any questions. Wayne
Wayne L. Workman
Deputy State Treasurer
Michigan Department of Treasury
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I'm frustrated by the water issue in Flint. | really don't think people are getting the benefit of the doubt. Now they are
concerned and rightfully so about the lead level studies they are receiving from the DEQ samples. Can you take a
moment out of your impossible schedule to personally take a look at this? These folks are scared and worried about the
health impacts and they are basically getting blown off by us (as a state we're just not sympathizing with their plight).
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