CONSTRUCTION DEFECT JOURNAL

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CONSTRUCTION DEFECT JOURNAL - ISSUE 242749 - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2025

Engineer at Flint Negligence Trial Details Government Water Errors

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LAN has maintained its position for years, saying the city ignored its anti-corrosion ideas.

April 4, 2022
Richard Korman & Jeff Yoders - Engineering News-Record

Warren Green, vice president and chief engineer of Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, an engineering consultant to Flint, Mich. during its disastrous water crisis of 2014 and 2015, testified in federal court last week that city officials forged ahead to switch its source of drinking water without adequate water softening or testing after one municipal manager assured him that the more extensive testing would be done.

Reprinted courtesy of Richard Korman, Engineering News-Record and Jeff Yoders, Engineering News-Record

Mr. Korman may be contacted at kormanr@enr.com
Mr. Yoders may be contacted at yodersj@enr.com

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