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TIMELINE: Here's how the Flint water crisis unfolded
A good timeline on the water crisis in Flint
TIMELINE: Here's how the Flint water crisis unfolded
The Environmental Protection Agency launched a federal audit -- Governor Rick Snyder appointed [url=,4668,7-277--367761--,00.html]a panel to look into it[/url] -- and there is a federal class action lawsuit underway.Everyone wants to know how the water went bad in one of Michigan's biggest cities. Michigan Radio has been on top of this story from the start.
See all our coverage here. Read, watch, and listen to our special series Not Safe to Drink here. And listen to our documentary here.To get a sense of how this happened in Michigan, scroll through the timeline below.Scrolling through the timeline, you get a sense for how the state takeover in Flint led to a series of decisions that were more than just "not fully understood," as Snyder later put it, but seemingly negligent in how officials reacted to mounting evidence that the water was poisoning some kids in the city.
A revolving door of emergency managers who are not accountable to the people of Flint seemed to think the city had an image problem, not an actual problem with lead in its water supply. See the major moments as they unfolded. Visit the web page.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Re: TIMELINE: Here's how the Flint water crisis unfolded
Here is a true hero in this story!
Flint doctor makes state see light about lead in water
Under the steady gaze of a watercolor giraffe and tissue paper butterflies, a Flint pediatrician and mother of two last month forced the state of Michigan to snap to attention.But getting the state to concede the probability that Flint’s water is poisoning its children with lead — after months of assurances from both city and state officials that the water is safe — was far from easy.It required Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, 38, to sidestep bureaucracy. It meant awkward conversations and putting her hospital — city-owned Hurley Medical Center — smack-dab in a political minefield.
And it meant checking her data “a zillion times,” she said, then second-guessing herself to the point of being physically ill when a state spokesman questioned her credibility.Just hours after state officials acknowledged her data, Hanna-Attisha felt equal parts exhausted and vindicated — at one moment laughing at congratulatory e-mails and comments from colleagues (“Maybe they’ll give you a lead key to the city,” one had quipped), at another reciting sobering statistics about the life-long damage from lead poisoning: irreversible brain damage, development delays, speech problems, a boosted risk for behavioral issues, serious chronic conditions, to name a few.
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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