Flint Water Crisis Caused by Interrupted Corrosion Control: Investigating "ground Zero" Home

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 2007-2014

  Pieper, Kelsey J ^a   Tang, Min ^a   Edwards, Marc A ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CORROSION; CORROSION PREVENTION; GALVANIZING; POTABLE WATER; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER POLLUTION;

BOTTLED WATER; CORROSION CONTROL; DRINKING WATER SOURCES; FORENSIC EVALUATION; HAZARDOUS WASTES; HEALTH INTERVENTIONS; STATE OF EMERGENCY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

WATER;

LEAD; DRINKING WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD; CHILD HEALTH; CORROSION CONTROL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; DRINKING WATER; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEALTH RISK; LEAD; PIPE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RIVER WATER; SAMPLING; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLEACHING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORROSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FLOW RATE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; INTERRUPTED CORROSION CONTROL; MICHIGAN; VIRGINIA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; LEAD POISONING; WATER POLLUTANT;

FLINT RIVER; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

CORROSION; DRINKING WATER; HUMANS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; MICHIGAN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 85019466778     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b04034     Document Type: Article

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