Post by Logan on Feb 6, 2016 0:54:20 GMT -6
Gov. Rick Snyder's point man for the state's response to the Flint water crisis said he did not brief the governor about a growing Legionnaires' outbreak in the Flint area until January of this year despite first learning about a potential problem in March 2015.
Harvey Hollins III, director of Michigan's Office of Urban and Metropolitan Initiatives, said in an interview Friday that he received an e-mail from a Department of Environmental Quality official in March about concerns over Legionnaires' disease in Genesee County. But Hollins said he told the e-mail's author, former DEQ spokesman Brad Wurfel, in a follow-up call, that there was not enough information for him to take the issue to the governor.
Instead, Hollins said he told Wurfel to gather more information and have the department's director bring it directly to the governor if it was warranted. Hollins said he heard nothing more about the issue until late December when local officials in Flint revealed the outbreak had recurred.
Read more www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/02/05/flint-water-crisis-legionnaires-disease/79887076/
Harvey Hollins III, director of Michigan's Office of Urban and Metropolitan Initiatives, said in an interview Friday that he received an e-mail from a Department of Environmental Quality official in March about concerns over Legionnaires' disease in Genesee County. But Hollins said he told the e-mail's author, former DEQ spokesman Brad Wurfel, in a follow-up call, that there was not enough information for him to take the issue to the governor.
Instead, Hollins said he told Wurfel to gather more information and have the department's director bring it directly to the governor if it was warranted. Hollins said he heard nothing more about the issue until late December when local officials in Flint revealed the outbreak had recurred.
Read more www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/02/05/flint-water-crisis-legionnaires-disease/79887076/