This episode reconstructs the Flint water crisis as a documented chain of decisions, warnings, disputed evidence, and delayed accountability. It begins with LeeAnne Walters’s 2015 tap-water result, then traces Flint’s April 2014 switch from Detroit-supplied Lake Huron water to the Flint River while the city was under state-appointed emergency financial management. The episode follows residents’ complaints, the failure to maintain adequate corrosion control, Miguel Del Toral’s June 2015 EPA interim memo, Virginia Tech’s resident-supported water sampling, Mona Hanna-Attisha’s September 24 blood-lead presentation, the October 2015 return to Detroit water, the January 2016 EPA emergency order, official investigations, civil settlement, and criminal charges that ended without verdicts after procedural rulings. The focus is the verified record of corrosion-control failure, regulatory breakdown, misleading assurances, delayed response, structural inequity, and unresolved accountability.

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YES OR NO: Should EPA have issued an emergency order for Flint in June 2015??????