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Two employees of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality were suspended without pay Friday as a result of questions related to water testing in Flint, the governor's office announced.
“Michiganders need to be able to depend on state government to do what’s best for them and in the case of the DEQ that means ensuring their drinking water is safe,” Snyder said in a statement. “Some DEQ actions lacked common sense and that resulted in this terrible tragedy in Flint. I look forward to the results of the investigation to ensure these mistakes don’t happen again.”
Both employees have been suspended pending an investigation, in accordance with Civil Service rules, the governor said. They could be fired.
DEQ Director Dan Wyant was forced out in late December.
The Deroit News reports"
Earlier this week, new DEQ Director Keith Creagh said “common sense” should have dictated that corrosion controls be utilized from the outset of Flint’s source switch. But he has said that under the vague wording of the Lead and Copper Rule, the state’s initial interpretation may have been “technically” allowable.
