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officials stopped denying the problem after Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, director of Hurley Medical Center in Flint, reported that the amount of lead in local children's blood had doubled (P 3,4)

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In July, a report from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services showed that blood lead levels “were higher than usual for children under age 16 living in the City of Flint during the months of July, August and September, 2014.” But the department convinced itself that the numbers were the result of normal seasonal variation in blood lead levels (P 3,4

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Monica Lee , EPA spokeswoman “While EPA worked within the framework of the law to repeatedly and urgently communicate the steps the state needed to take to properly treat its water, those necessary actions were not taken as quickly as they should have been,”  (P 3,4)

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EPA’s regional administrator, Susan Hedman, told city and state officials that it was a draft report that should not have been released.(regarding Del Toral's statement). Del Toral was even named a "rogue employee".

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In October, the MDEQ admitted it failed to follow the correct protocol for corrosion. (P 2)

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Miguel Del Toral, Enviromental Protection Agency expert said, “Recent drinking water sample results indicate the presence of high lead results in the drinking water, which is to be expected in a public water system that is not providing corrosion control treatment. The lack of any mitigating treatment for lead is of serious concern for residents that live in homes with lead service lines or partial lead service lines, which are common throughout the City of Flint.” (P 2)

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2011- evaluation of water called for treatment with phosphates to reduce corrosiveness. Michigan Department of Environmental Quality was supposed to to ensure that Flint followed the federal Safe Drinking Water Act but it didn't. (P 2)

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water was so corrosive that in October 2014, General Motors quit using it to avoid corroding engine parts (P 3,4)

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January 2015, the city warned residents that the water had high levels of disinfectant byproducts (P 3,4)

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lead is a neurotoxin that can stunt growth and cause brain damage in young children (P 3,4)

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nearly 100,000 people can't drink their tap water (P 1, 3,4)