Reoublicans sure love poisoning people
This just came across my Twitter feed and is now starting to get attention. I imagine we'll be hearing a lot more about this. After Flint and now this, it makes you wonder how many other cities are impacted....
This sort of thing shouldn't be happening ever in this country and these people deserve to be locked up who enabled it to happen!
Kansans drank contaminated water for years. The state didn’t tell them.
The state allowed hundreds of residents in two Wichita-area neighborhoods to drink contaminated water for years without telling them, despite warning signs of contamination close to water wells used for drinking, washing and bathing.
In 2011, while investigating the possible expansion of a Kwik Shop, the state discovered dry cleaning chemicals had contaminated groundwater at 412 W. Grand in Haysville.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment didn’t act for more than six years.
It didn’t test private wells less than a mile away. Nor did it notify residents that their drinking wells could be contaminated with dry cleaning chemicals, known as perchloroethylene, so they could test the water themselves.
“We didn’t find out for 7 years,” said Joe Hufman, whose well was contaminated by a Haysville dry cleaner. “Haysville knew it. KDHE knew it. Kwik Shop knew it.”
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