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Two Million Gallons of Raw Sewage ‘Spill’ Into Already Contaminated Flint River
What Did The People of Flint Ever Do To Deserve This? ‘Emergency’ (Mis)management Might Hold the Answer
Now comes word that the City of Flint, Michigan, already suffering under a five-year-long plague of the lead-contaminated Flint River water, has managed to somehow spill more than two million gallons of raw sewage into that self-same, diseased and filthy waterway.
As reported by Mlive.com News:
The city dumped an estimated 2 million gallons of untreated sewage into the Flint River Sunday, Aug. 18, just months after officials warned wastewater infrastructure was fast approaching a “critical point.”
A partial report filed by the city with the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy on Tuesday, Aug. 20, says a “flash flood event” overflowed primary settling tanks at the city’s wastewater treatment plant on Beecher Road, sending raw waste onto the ground and into a storm sewer drain that discharges directly to the river.The city publicly announced the spill on Aug. 18, but thus far has yet to reveal what protocols were in place prior to the spill or how it will prevent a similar occurrence in the future. Of additional note, the city also failed to…
