{"id":672,"date":"2017-09-13T10:37:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2017-09-13T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:40:09","slug":"lead-pipe-corrosion-in-flint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"Lead pipe corrosion in Flint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ez-2017-00226m_0003.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-673\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ez-2017-00226m_0003.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a wonderful paper by Olson et al. in <em>Environmental Science &amp; Technology Letters<\/em> called <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.estlett.7b00226\">Forensic Estimates of Lead Release from Lead Service Lines during the Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan<\/a>. From the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The findings provide evidence that selective dissolution of lead phosphate minerals occurred because of the absence of orthophosphate during the crisis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m teaching the chemical engineering intro class at Northeastern this semester, and I&#8217;m putting in some information from this paper. Mismanagement of the water supply in Flint is a pretty perfect example of how <strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong> to do chemical engineering. The piping infrastructure in Flint required orthophosphate treatment of the water, and for some reason this practice was stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a wonderful paper by Olson et al. in Environmental Science &amp; Technology Letters called Forensic Estimates of Lead Release from Lead Service Lines during the Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan. From the abstract: The findings provide evidence that selective &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=672\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}