Wildlife, fisheries, water and wildlife to order. We are here today to discuss innovative financing and funding to address americas i did efficient Water Infrastructure sflchl. Many members of this committee including myself often reference the American Society of Civil Engineers, infrastructure report card. Currently they grade americas drinking Water Infrastructure with a d. Was wastewater slightly better at dplus. Reminds me of some of our grades in school. How about you . This is not a rural problem or big city problem. Its not a republican or democrat problem. This is a National Emergency and we need to find solutions before its too late. It is one thing to see these terrible grades on paper but what does this actually mean for people in their daytoday lives . Usually when we imagine life without clean and efficient Drinking Water and wastewater, we picture communities that do not resemble our own. We picture faroff countries that do not have all the blessings america has. Sadly,
Wildlife, fisheries, water and wildlife to order. We are here today to discuss innovative financing and funding to address americas i did efficient Water Infrastructure sflchl. Many members of this committee including myself often reference the American Society of Civil Engineers, infrastructure report card. Currently they grade americas drinking Water Infrastructure with a d. Was wastewater slightly better at dplus. Reminds me of some of our grades in school. How about you . This is not a rural problem or big city problem. Its not a republican or democrat problem. This is a National Emergency and we need to find solutions before its too late. It is one thing to see these terrible grades on paper but what does this actually mean for people in their daytoday lives . Usually when we imagine life without clean and efficient Drinking Water and wastewater, we picture communities that do not resemble our own. We picture faroff countries that do not have all the blessings america has. Sadly,
Management system fail under your leadership in this instance . In this instance, it would be much to the case i that have. As you wished they would have asked more questions and pushed harder. Is that a yes or no . In this particular case, with respect to to the water issue, thats a fair conclusion. Its a very important issue, since it negatively impacts the health and well fair of children, impacting their ability to laesh and be successful in life. Your own former adviser, dennis sheranack learned the lesson, because he said that government was allowing the citizens to be on the losing end. Were you wrong to run that government like a business . In terms of running it like a business, a government is not a business. It isnt. Why should you say it should be run like one . In terms of accountability and measurement and delivering results to the people and in terms of not just flint but the state of michigan, im proud we did things as healthy michigan bringing medicaid to citizens, and
Discussions to address those in terms of the resources we had currently available to us. In terms of going back to your list, the color and odor of this water was not good. You dont want to see people drink that if you can help that. But we didnt have all the resources then. They were working on these issues. In terms of e. Coli, in terms of other issue, we would continually go through mr. Snyder my administration, and ask the experts another article. Yes. The National Journal which i hold up here. Yes. It says michigan Governor Snyder conceded monday that his administration handling of the flint water crisis is a stain on his legacy, and i quote, im not sure of the specific dates in terms of saying there is any lead in the water sometime during 2015. Again, they presented some of the information about having to do with a second set of tests. Governor snyder, we all know that when we are elected to an office, we take an oath. And we are empowered by the electorate to hire staff. Do you
ORLEANS A bright red crane stood out against a nearly cloudless blue spring sky, hoisting blocks of scaffolding from the site’s access road into a massive concrete foundation.
The scaffolding was part of a temporary support system for the pouring of the slab of the first floor of Orleans’ new $38.1 million wastewater treatment plant, which is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2022. For the past two years, Orleans streets also bustled with crews installing the pipes for the $21.4 million downtown sewer collection system.
This is a moment capping over two decades of contentious debate in Orleans, and one that Alan McClennen, a former longtime Orleans select board member, could scarcely have believed possible just a few years ago when the cost of the town’s wastewater cleanup plan seemed insurmountable.