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Fwd: Flint drinking water

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 [email protected] 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. xxxEND_PAGE:deq24_b110_0283_0283_1

RE: Proposed Press Conference on Flint Drinking Water

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. xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b0491_1700_1701_1 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 xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b0491_1700_1701_2

FLINT WATER - MEETING TODAY

Importance: High xxxEND_PAGE:dhhs02_b1279_4776_4778_2 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 xxxEND_PAGE:dhhs02_b1279_4776_4778_3

Update

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 xxxEND_PAGE:deq24_b095_0257_0257_1