Top Snyder aides urged going back to Detroit water
Source: Detroit Free Press
Two of Gov. Rick Snyder’s top lawyers privately advocated moving the city of Flint back to the Detroit water system because of quality problems only months after Flint began to draw its drinking water from the Flint River and treat it at its own plant in mid-2014, according to a review of e-mails made public Friday by the governor's office.
The governor's top aides discussed the city's water-quality problems as early as the fall of 2014, according to a review of 550 e-mails released by the Snyder administration.Valerie Brader, deputy legal counsel and senior policy adviser to Snyder, raised problems with Flint River water in an e-mail to the governor's Chief of Staff Dennis Muchmore and other top aides on Oct. 14, 2014.
She argued for returning the city to Detroit’s system drawn from Lake Huron, saying it made economic and environmental sense for an "urgent matter to fix." She cited bacterial contamination in the treated river water and reduced quality that caused "GM to leave due to rusted parts."
"As you know there have been problems with the Flint water quality since they left the DWSD (Detroit Water and Sewerage Department), which was a decision by the emergency manager there," Brader wrote to Muchmore and three other top Snyder aides.
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