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TOXIC TIDES: GALION’S REGULATORY SHIELD — BENCHMARKING GALION’S UTILITY COLLAPSE AGAINST 66,000 MUNICIPALITIES NATIONWIDE

When municipal infrastructure breaks down, often local administrations instinctively deploy the same defensive playbook: claim the pipes are simply “old,” dismiss public outcry as localized panic, and insist the town is merely dealing with “typical small-town problems.” But when examining how water infrastructure fails across America, a stark reality emerges regarding who owns the pipes.  […]

TOXIC TIDES III: HOW OHIO EPA SANITIZED GALION’S CHRONIC SEWAGE BYPASSES, ERASED FEDERAL OVERSIGHT, AND LEFT A CITY POISONED

When a municipal utility grid collapses, raw human waste floods residential basements, industrial heavy metals leach into the soil, and carcinogens flow through household taps. When the state regulatory agency tasked with protecting the public steps in, its statutory duty is to enforce the law. In Galion, Ohio, the state regulator did the exact opposite: […]