02-04-2021, 11:22 PM
rjmacs wrote:
[quote=C(-)ris]
It is a state issue, and more specifically a municipal issue not a federal issue.
How do you mean?
Drinking water quality is absolutely a federal issue, as is protecting children from lead poisoning. The EPA has been centrally involved in this for decades.
For enforcement, testing, and to identify problems and order fixes? Yup, all federal. You need the watchdog to keep them honest. As far as FIXING the problem, that is on the municipality or the state to fund and implement. Their town, their water, their self caused mess, they pay to fix it. If they can't, then the federal government needs to sue the state for payment or to force them to fix it. Either way, Federal dollars shouldn't bail out Michigan tax payers. They voted these people in that were making the decisions.