Mike Glasgow
FLINT, Mich. — An official with Flint's water plant said Tuesday he
had planned to treat the drinking water with anti-corrosive chemicals
after the city began drawing from the Flint River but was overruled by a
state environmental regulator.
Mike Glasgow, then a supervisor at the plant and
now the municipal utilities administrator, said he received the
instruction from district engineer Mike Prysby of the Michigan
Department of Environmental Quality during a meeting to discuss the
final steps before Flint switched from the Detroit water system as a
cost-saving measure in April 2014.
Glasgow said Prysby told him a year of water
testing was required before a decision could be made on whether
corrosion controls were needed, which the state DEQ has since
acknowledged was a misreading of federal regulations on preventing lead
and copper pollution. The omission enabled lead to leach from aging
pipes and fixtures and contaminate tap water that reached some homes,
businesses and schools.
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