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Mike Prysby Richard Benzie

RE: Ticket #23002-490657 Response Sent

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Hello, It is my contention that you have grossly embellished about the water quality in Genesee County; particularly Flint. The response submitted below is prior to the stark discovery that federal laws were violated. It's plain to see that funds have been misappropriated resulting in harm to residents and their families. In the correspondence, below, you have minimized the problem and diverted the blame to individual residents. Considering the public broadcast about our water equality, the culprits are not the residents, but the officials that are designated to ensure the quality of water. Thank you, Sheila

ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE WORK PRODUCT: Draft paragraph - needs review and

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additional data. Importance: High The Flint River — is it a safe source of drinking water? In Michigan, we are fortunate to have high quality drinking water sources. Seventy percent of Michigan’s population receives its drinking water from surface water sources, most with intakes in the Great Lakes. A handful of public water supplies in Michigan do treat water from inland sources such as rivers or groundwater under the influence of surface water. All surface water or groundwater under the influence of surface water requires significant treatment in order to be safe for consumption. Treatment of surface water is referred to under the SDWA as “complete treatment”. While all surface water sources must receive this higher level of treatment, river sources present a greater challenge than water withdrawn from one of the Great Lakes. Under most circumstances, rivers are prone to greater fluctuations in temperature, have higher amounts of organic material, greater turbidity (suspended solids), and more microbiological and viral contamination than Lakes Huron, Erie, Michigan or Superior. It should be noted, that while the water chemistry in the Flint River differs from that in Lake Huron, it can still be treated in accordance with the SDWA and Act 399. Many cities across the country rely on similar sources for drinking water. Also, it is not the source water that reacts with the homeowners plumbing out in the distribution system, but rather the finished water quality that is important. To begin with, neither the Flint River nor the treated water leaving the City of Flint’s water treatment plant contains lead. In addition, the treatment process employed by the City of Flint includes lime softening to reduce the hardness in the river water. Lime softening is not a process that would typically be thought to increase corrosivity of water. The City of Flint, however, does practice recarbonation to adjust pH at the end of the treatment process. pH levels of finished water leaving the City of Flint’s water treatment plant averaged 7.7. Water monitoring conducted quarterly at 25 sample sites located throughout the distribution system showed the following: July — September 2014 average pH = 7.71 range: 7.56 — 7.86 October — December 2014 average pH = 7.88 range: 7.62 —8.10 January — March 2015 average pH = 7.81 range: 7.60 — 7.99 April —June 2015 average pH = ??? range: ??? These numbers compare to the water delivered by DWSD. NEED TO INSERT HERE. xxxEND_PAGE:deq21_b219_0712_0712_1

DCDS coding for Flint

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Importance: High We have shifted gears on tracking time for Flint. Since some of the time is not recorded with hours (ie those who cannot record more than 80 hours in a pay period or are earning comp time), in order to capture it all, we are now going to use an Activity Code in DCDS instead of a project number. Below is guidance on how to do this in DCDS. Let me know if you have problems and I can walk you through it. We will still use a project number for all travel or other non-payroll costs. If I have missed anyone in this email, please forward on. Payroll is not certified so there is time to make changes as needed for this pay period. Thanks Kathy Tetzlaff Department Of Environmental Quality Resource Management Group Administration Section Chief for Office of Drinking Water & Municipal Assistance Office of Waste Management & Radiological Protection Office of Oil, Gas, & Minerals (517) 284-6500 Jeni RMG Sharepoint xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b141_3323_3324_1 Act Cd Description FDWP Flint Drinking Water — No Pay Entering an Activity Code in DCDS The activity tab is accessed through the regular screen where employees enter their time. The path is as follows: Functions > Employee Data Collection. Right next to the TIME tab is an ACTIVITY tab. In the “Activity” tab complete the following steps: 1) Ensure that a check mark is selected for “No CB” which stands for No Coding Block. 2) Inthe drop down menu for “Activity” select code “FDWP” identified as Flint Drinking Water — No Pay. 3) Enter the appropriate time per day, for the two weeks in the pay period, where work was completed on the Flint Drinking Water project. 4) Select “Save” to save all information entered. xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b141_3323_3324_2

RE: Project Number for City of Flint Drinking Water

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Here's my best guess fram a review of my calendar and my emails. e August 10-— 7 hour August 12 -~ 2 hours August 14 — 7 hour August 17 ~ 7 hour August 24 ~ 2 hours Asigust 28 ~ 2 hours August 31 ~ 4 hours Senternber 2 ~— 2 hours September 2 ~- | hour Genmtermber 4 ~~ ¢ hour Senternber 8 ~ 2 hours Sentermber 9 - 2 hours Senternber 10 ~— 5 hours Senternber 11-4 hours Senterber 15-3 hours Senternber 16 ~ 4 hours September 17 ~ 4 hours September 16— 7 hour Septernber 21-5 hours September 22 ~ 4 hours Septernber 23 ~ 4 hours September 24-9 hours September 25 —3 hours ® &® @ © © @ © © © © © & © © & © & SF 8 FB Total before last pay period: 64 hours

FW: TAC Team Summary 10_7_15

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Attached is VA Tech’s ppt discussion of the corrasion concerns in Flint and the comparison to Detroit water regarding corrosion. It would be more helpful to see the methodology of the study, actual data, and how samples were collected. Michael Prysby, P.E. District Engineer Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance S17 290-8817

FW: Project Number for City of Flint Drinking Water

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Importance: High E wasn't sure whe all will need this so please forward as oppropriate. The department weuld like to capture our costs releted to the Flint situation. The below project number has been established. You ean use This with any account ceding The? you would normally be using for DCDS or travel expenses. As Eunderstand 4, we alse want to go back and camture ag much ag we can prior to This date, Tf you would process payroll corrections to acd this praject number, that would be helpful. Tf there is trevel, let us know so we con carrect We cari aise de the DCDS corrections far you Hf you pravide the dates and hours that should be charged, xxxEND_PAGE:deq16_b5_0892_4900_0005 With year-enc, the gooner the betrer. Thanks

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