Director of cbs 2 frontlines deadly water. Heres about the new documentary. Remind viewers of when and why this letter became contaminated. 72014, the city of france decided to join a new line. A new Water Pipeline that would, well water from lake aaron to other surrounding counties and cities. In the interim before this pipeline was constructed, state officials who were in charge of the finances in the city at the time, decided to switch the city of lent onto the flint river and turn on the flatwater plant which we see in the film has been barely operational about 50 years. What happened and what need it to happen for that to be successful and what didnt happen in the wake ofid taking e switchth to the foot river. There are a lot of upgrades that need it to happen at the plant. About tens of millions of dollars of upgrades. The plant hasnt been operational in this way and nearly half a century. So there are a lot of upgrades in the system that need it to be sydone. There was equipment
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Then he started a hotel chain in alaska. Ultimately he opened a Shopping Center in alaska that included the very first escalator in the entire state. What . Stairs that move . Except at that point alaska wasnt even a state yet. Wally hickel was a key part of alaska lobbying to become a state. He started lobbying for that years before it finally happened in 1959. And then wally hickel became the governor of the new state of alaska seven years later in 1966. So wally hickel was one of those sort of only in america, incredible man of action success stories. Culminating with him becoming both very rich and very influential and becoming governor of his adopted state. After serving as governor, he 1966, 1967, 1968, he ascended still higher. He left alaska, came to washington, d. C. , because president Richard Nixon named wally hickel to become part of his cabinet. To become the new secretary of the interior. It seems pretty clear nixon at the time expected wally hickel to be a down the line,
The very first escalator in the entire state. What . Stairs that move . Except at that point alaska wasnt even a state yet. Wally hickle was a key part of alaska lobbying to become a state. He started lobbying for that years before it finally happened in 1959. And then wally hickle became the governor of the new state of alaska seven years later in 1966. So wally hickle was one of those sort of only in america, incredible man of action success stories. Culminating with him becoming very rich and becoming governor of his state. After serving as governor, he ascended still higher. He left alaska, came to washington, d. C. , because president Richard Nixon named wally hickle to become part of his cabinet. To become the new secretary of state the interior. He expected wally hickle to be a down the line probusiness prodevelopment, prodrilling kind of guy. But wally hickle did his own thinking and ended up being sort of way too much of a mixed bag for nixon even right from the start. By the