Problem with lead in LA county worse than in Flint, MI

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They're having lead in the drinking water in LA county, and 17% of children, cutting across socioeconomic lines, have been found to have elevated lead levels, more than 3 times the 5% of children found to have the same in Flint, MI:

It appears they think "lead paint" is the leading culprit.

The lead warning tells us: Assume that paint on a home built before 1978 is lead-based.

Home buyers are expected to get their paint inspected.

You can't drink some of this stuff, taste it, and not know.

If you consider these people to be fully human and worthy of life, if eugenics is unconscionable, this is a national embarrassment; water is one of the philosophical elements. Nothing is considered more basic.

You're telling people, that they are obliged by an imaginary, social bargain, in which there is something called food deserts.

You're supposed to participate, and sacrifice yourself, where basic survival needs are not a given, and call this a first world utopia, the most successful, social experiment, ever created.

At Flint, MI townhall on the lead in water issue, the police are deployed in full force, intimidating the citizens:

With the promised tax cuts, as well as the war on science, don't expect this problem to be solved anytime soon.

The toxic water in LA County, California and Flint, Michigan ...
brought to you courtesy of
the Democrats.

While I am not well versed in California's water problems, I understand that the clean water supply for Flint was switched for dirty, poisoned river water by the Republican governor and his anti-democratic, unelected committee meant to lord over so called failed municipalities (of color).

Nope. Don't blame the Republican Governor.

"Stanley was in effect replaced by — Democrat — Darnell Earley, former director of the Democratic legislative caucus’s research-and-policy team, who became the city’s emergency manager. Earley is the Democrat the other Democrats blame for changing the city’s water supply, and the Michigan Democratic party has demanded his termination."

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429803/flint-water-scandal-democratic-pattern

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Is there perhaps a more reliable source than the National Review?

The facts are the facts.
And you haven't presented any sources.

Flint was in the process of forming their own water district and building a pipeline from another supplier, and their previous water supplier in Detroit, which sold them treated Lake Heron water refused to continue the contract with them through this transition period. So Flint switched to their back up supply from the Flint River, that had previously been their primary water supply decades ago. The water from the Flint River is acidic, and began to corrode pipes which contained lead. Why Flint water managers weren't aware that the Flint River water would be a problem, and didn't spot the problem sooner, I don't know, but the problem had been known for quite a while before it came to the attention of the public.

California does not have a centralized, statewide water authority. Different districts are responsible for the water quality in their district.

There is not widespread water quality problems in LA County. There is the occasional small town that uses well water and doesn't treat it properly when needed, and there has been the occasional contamination of stored water in reservoirs, but that water is usually not sent to customers. California water districts are usually fairly obsessive about water quality.

Unacceptable levels of lead has been found in the blood of some children in Los Angeles, but this is probably from lead paint, which many of the older buildings have. There is a tendency for the landlords of these older buildings to keep painting over the original lead based paint layers using lead free paint, because removing the lead paint would be more costly. Of course, if the building is not maintained well and the paint starts to chip or peel off, the lead dust can end up in the environment where it can find it's way into people. Soil in some areas may also have higher concentrations of lead due to industrial activities decades ago, or the use of leaded fuel.

It's not in the drinking water provided by the city/cities. It's in the original layers of paint of old residential buildings, and in the pipes at some schools. Some of those schools are over 100 years old. The high school my grandmother went to is still a high school.

More from TYT on the Flint water issue:



Apparently, since the town hall was held in a church sanctuary, it was now "disorderly conduct" for men to wear hats or to cuss, and some people were arrested for either of these 2 acts. The cop said he wasn't going to "play" with anybody as he blithely enforced the Christian religion on the residents of Flint, MI. He dismissed these residents as "agitators", because how dare you agitate at a town hall meeting.

They're a bunch of no good bullies. Look how they suddenly arrested these people at about 3:40 they were escorting out for "cussing in church". They immediately grab them and slam them down onto the reception desk. The arresting officer of the woman was Kristopher Jones.

EDIT: Corrections, the people at 3:40 were arrested for raising their voices which the cops called "disorderly conduct", but the officer clearly states at about 7:15 that he was arresting the person there for "disrespecting the church", for "cussing at church".

I support the Justice Democrats. The establishment Democrats are absolutely rotten.