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It was a year ago that I wrote the story for Motherboard about a government contract to seal leaded gas from homes after the toxic chemical was found in Flint’s drinking water. It turns out that that government contract was never really intended to work. It was to protect the water companies.
I was shocked when I learned that the leaded water from a factory in New Orleans actually contained much more toxic chemicals like lead, cadmium, and mercury than the Flint River water that was not treated. The water was delivered to the city in August of 2014 in a bucket that was filled with water by pipe, not by the tap. To get a sense for the problems in New Orleans, it’s best to imagine a giant container filled with paint thinner and then the rest of the paint 바카라 룰thinner has a sponge inside it. It was then placed on a conveyor belt and the paint thinner was sent off to the factory.
In New Orleans, as in Flint, all the lead from the paint was then turned into sludge that was dumped on rivers, creeks, or oceans. This sludge was then discharged into the water, and from there it was filtered and treated before being released into the river, where it could leach lead into the f파라오 카지노ood chain.
But when you look at the full details of the lead service contract in Flint, which covers roughly 90 percent of the city, it’s very clear that the lead service contract made the city even less safe from lead than it already was. According to its own documents, the water from the contractors is not tested for levels of lead. But what does testing involve? The contract states that the test that Flint is required to go through as it fills the bucket with the paint thinner is to see if a specific component of the paint will leach into the river. But what exactly does that test require? That’s where the lead service contract is flawed. It leaves out that part of the agreement that is actually the biggest oversight problem. The government that paid the bills for the lead service contract is not the agency that makes sure that lead service pipes don’t leak into the river. This doesn’t mean they’re infallible; the people who actually run the city have to make sure that pipes that aren’t being tested are actually leaking. But it does mean that people in the government that make those payment