From what I've read (always questionable), they knew the flint river water was very polluted. So they solved "the problem" by adding much more chlorine than normal for city water. Well, my chemistry background tells me that chlorine bubbled through water makes hydrochloric acid. Some of you have used hydrochloric acid for cleaning mortar stains off brick, and maybe cleaning the rust off steel. It is commonly used in industry. So it acted in a predictable manner cleaning the "permanent" corrosion off the pipes and the lead joints. Some city water pipes are actually made of lead, and prior to WW2 lead pipes were commonly used to carry city water from the street mains to the inside of the house basement. Soon there would be enough iron and calcium deposits on the inside of the water pipes to shield the water from the lead. And they did not use chlorine or fluorine in municipal water systems until later. BTW, fluorine bubbled through water makes fluoric acid which is what is used to etch glass. So the political appointees did not know their basic chemistry and thus there is a huge human health problem. Lead damage to the developing brain and nervous system can be life long permanent damage in children and especially babies. Less affect on adults.
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