Think Progress – by ALEX ZIELINSKI
Oily black liquid is coming out of residential faucets in the rural Texas town of Crystal City, and no one is sure who to alert. That’s because twelve days ago, the FBI arrested all but one the top elected officials in town for their involvement in an illegal gambling ring and immigrant smuggling.
The murky water force local schools to close early on Thursday, a decision made by the school district Superintendent Imelda Allen.
“There’s not really anyone in charge to oversee and to make people aware of the condition of the water. So I wasn’t going to wait for anyone to call me from City Hall. I know that leadership is not present at the time,” Allen said.
According to remaining city staff, the water’s coloring was a result of a recently flushed water tank that hadn’t been cleaned in 20 or 30 years. Many residents expressed their disappointment in the delay on the city’s Facebook page and across social media.
“We apologize for the burden this issue has caused, we are currently going through administrative challenges that minimizes our coordination on certain levels,” the page posted in response. “Please continue to voice your opinion, and please vote.”
City staffers opened fire hydrants in hopes of further flushing the black water Thursday afternoon. But it’s still unclear whether the problem has been fixed.
According to the the area’s district attorney Richard Durbin, the arrested officials have not resigned from their jobs and “for the time being, they remain the elected officials and the representatives of that city.” None of these officials have spoken about the water problem, and the city’s mayor, Ricardo Lopez — who was arrested again on Tuesday for assault — has said he “will not step in another council meeting.”
Crystal City certainly isn’t the only town suffering from water problems, but it is undoubtedly unique. As reports of lead-tainted water come in from cities across the country, from Flint, Michigan to Chicago, Illinois, Crystal City’s black sludge is an example of yet another way a city’s faulty water system can leave residents frightened — and thirsty.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/02/19/3751333/texas-sludge-water/
Hey Sean Penn, where the fk are you, you cry like a little girl about the Haitians, but silent with your own. Your a fking traitor you assclown. F-you MTFKR.
LOL
Where’s Michael Moore?
Michael Moore is chicken wing busy.. Right about now he’s looking for a handy wipe.
LOL
Still in the hospital?
…no chance he croaked.
They must have arrested the Black Sludge Administrator and now there’s nobody around to regulate the oily black sludge content.
They should probably have that stuff analyzed…might be worth something.
Be like the Clampetts.
Cement ponds for everybody.
LOL “Black gold, Texas tea”
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality says that there is no health problem (give me a break):
http://www.kens5.com/story/news/2016/02/18/crystal-city-isd-realeasing-early-due-water-problems/80561136/
Problems like this did not occur on as widespread a scale when folks had their own private wells. They also were not forced to drink Sodium Fluoride and the byproducts of decontamination of public water: chlorine and chloramines.
Agreed.
I agree Darzak. They cared more about what was being dumped into the ground too.
Too bad many wells/ aquifers nowadays are polluted.
Not too far from me people died because the wells had poison in it. Arsenic if I recall. Another place it was/is ecoli.
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Another place it was/is ecoli.
DUG WELL RIGHT BELOW SEPTIC TANK……..YEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWWWWWW
“According to the the area’s district attorney Richard Durbin, the arrested officials have not resigned from their jobs and “for the time being, they remain the elected officials and the representatives of that city.””
Umm….if a person is arrested from their job, they are fired. So how can they still be an elected official? What kind of idiotic statement is this?
You would think so, wouldn’t you. I guess it is kind of like paid administrative leave for cops.
For what it’s worth, as of Friday, the Mayor officially resigned.
http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/texas/2016/02/19/crystal-city-mayor-resigns-amid-federal-charges/80633344/
Thank God…
I thought it was just my @ss.
Now I don’t have to go to quickcare.
Fkn A
Look up Bell, Kalifornia if you want to see what happens to American towns when they are fully colonized with illegals.
I’m glad I pump my own water. The nation’s municipal water supply plants will be crumbling with the rest of the infrastructure, and of course, there’s no money to fix anything because it’s all been stolen.
See what I mean about all of them disappearing in the middle of the night? What else can they do? It’s not as if they can answer for what they’ve done to us. It’s just a game of stealing what you can before the nation goes down the tubes, and disappearing before you’re caught.
They may also disappear into underground bomb shelters before getting us nuked, but either way, their behavior indicates that they have no regard for this country, its people, or its future.
This comment above by Jolly Roger re-energized me. You hit the nail on the head. Everything, and I mean everything, is falling apart. The whole shithouse is coming down.
One of the last things to happen to the Roman Government, was the treasury was looted.
“Please continue to voice your opinion, and please vote.”
And you will get more of the same theft, corruption and lies.
Sad part is, most freedumb loving amerikan sheeple who believe this crap will follow that advice and wonder why they get more of the same. Derp.
“There’s not really anyone in charge to oversee and to make people aware of the condition of the water.”
Seriously?
So,… you can’t see for yourself the condition of the ‘Black Sludge’. You actually need an ‘authority’ figure to make you aware?
The best advice I can give you is… open mouth, insert gun, pull trigger.