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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  Ann Arbor isn’t Rust Belt-ish? So its entire water table isn’t slowly but surely being poisoned by a toxic plume?

https://www.wxyz.com/news/4-mile-contamination-plu...nn-arbors-primary-water-source

Its river isn’t poisoned with chemical spills?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/15/mi...gan-huron-river-chemical-spill  [/quote]

You've got some weird obsession with trashing Ann Arbor with misleading factoids.  Which are so easily rebutted that one supposes you're just doing a quick Google search

Clean Water Act violations happen, unfortunately, all over the country.    If you look at the states with the most unsafe and hazardous drinking water, Michigan isn't in the top ten (notwithstanding Flint) - but states like California and Arizona and Florida and Georgia are, which suggests there's no particular connection to the so-called Rust Belt.  https://www.multipure.com/purely-social/science/top-10-states-worst-public-water-ratings-united-states/

The chemical spill referenced in the Guardian article involves chromium six which is found in unsafe levels in drinking water of about 75% of the US population.   And if you look at the prevalence map of chromium six sites https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/chromium6_contamination/map/ you'll see it's actually a problem in greater concentation in the South and Northeast and California than in the Great Lakes/"Rustbelt."  What's especially ironic is that the Guardian article is that it calls the Huron River "popular for fishing and recreation" which seems to fly in the face of stupid "RustBelt-ish" characterizations here.

Pathetic.   Keep this up and you'll just reinforce people's assumption that your resentment of Ann Arbor stems from rejection.

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Trashing? It’s a great state school. If you don’t mind going to college in the cold and dreary Rust Belt.[/quote]

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