CORRODED TRUST
Is the man-made catastrophe in Flint a sign of things to come?
IT’S BEEN THE subject of protests and debates, but if anything is improving in Flint, Michigan, it’s hard for any of us on the ground to see.
One of the city’s lead pipes has been replaced for the benefit of the press, but more than 8,000 additional service lines are likely corroded and still leaching toxic lead. It took a mom, a pediatrician, and a professor in Virginia to discover Flint’s children were being poisoned. It took cable television to get the nation to give a damn.
And that’s not all. An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has killed at least 9 people and infected 87 others over the last two years. The state knew. The city knew. The county
