ECOR 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Legionella, Lead Poisoning, Pediatrics

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Engineering Common Core Courses
• Course: ECOR 1010
• Professor: Glenn Mc Rae

Document Summary

Flint is an industrial town, built on car manufacturing. Depressed economy with a high unemployment rate. They thought they could save money by changing the location of their water. Issue of maintaining infrastructure with the decreasing population. source to save on pumping cost. They decided to change their water source to the flint river. High levels of lead in drinking water: Caused by source switch from detroit river/lake huron to flint river. Timeline on new cars (big effect on economy because automobile industry was huge) August 2014 boil water advisory as a result of discolored water. October 2014 gm stopped using water because it was causing corrosion. January 2015 detroit offered to switch back the water source to the. Feb aug 2015 questions and denials, lee ann walters made several. September 2015 professor marc edwards and dr. hanna atisha went.