Alexandria, Indiana a small town turned inside out with indignation. There runs beneath its streets a dead poisonous fact, and over them perch the officers knowing and telling no tale. The essence of this scandal is a poisoned water supply, a hospitalized baby, a leadership in the city that lied, covered up and abandoned the people.

There Are Names To The Scandal Now. There Are Faces To The Damage.

In July, 1 baby was brought to the ER and was confirmed to have E. coli poisoning which they, themselves, had tap water. Soon a veteran Alexandria lady violently sickened, weeing the blood and passed away. Her son had to go to Kentucky to attend her. Another occupant has turned out ok after the same verified disease.

Even when more and more evidence confirmed it, Mayor Todd Naselroad informed the population that the water was okay. Nay drink up, he says--as when folks were sickening.

New video brings a representative of IDEM, Clint, into the picture, who stands before residents and tells them that the level of 0.09 mg/L of chlorine was good, though the state and the federal laws demand that the level should be at least 0.2 mg/L, which is more than twice of that limit, and this would safeguard against bacteria such as E. coli.

This Was Not A Blunder. This Was Misinformation Meant To Be.

Weeks have passed with the Concerned Citizens of Alexandria digging up what the city tried to keep quiet. They have sent out chlorine test results, hospital records, failed to respond to requests to make public records available, and gruesome evidence that shows not only neglect but a mop up operation no less.

Mark Caldwell, the city of Water Superintendent, lied that he did not receive emails asking him to provide logs of chlorine in spite of the fact that there is documented evidence. And not only him. Clerk-Treasurer Darcy VanErman is the one under suspicion now as he is accused of holding financial documents without disclosure and breaching the Access to Public Records Act of Indiana. It was explained best by Todd Naselroad

 “The lies were not mere oral inkling, they were bricked, stacked up and chained to box off the truth.”

Darcy VanErman continued: “There is less said by elected officials than the sirens. They stood back and they watched their town get sick.”

That Silence Is Deep.

In two instances, different city council meetings, citizens were interrupted in the process of asking questions. The council people, such as Jeremy VanErman, Roger Cuneo, Amy McCurry, John Burdsall, Wendi Goens, Dave Luck, and Donna Key-Kerr failed to provide some answers, even as there were several reasons to know of the crisis. No admonitions were applied. There are no boil warnings. No warning messages in health. Nothing.

However, the local whistleblower and the founder SCROOGE LLC, Peters, is fighting back. Once he reported the test results and uncovered the cover-up, its payment processor, Checkout.com closed his merchant account and locked 25 percent of his funds under the rolling reserve. His monetary demand is in the amount of 10 million dollars on the basis of retaliation of a federally protected whistleblower and economic sabotage.

It is not just a local municipal failure. It is an ethical demise. An infant had been tortured. Water was feared by the families. People pleaded to know. Officials spoke nothing but silence.

The Concerned Citizens of Alexandria are now insisting on the immediate resignations of Mayor Naselroad, Mark Caldwell, Clint of the IDEM and Councilman Jeremy VanErman. They are urging Governor Braun to make an intervention and reinstate safety and trust in an abandoned community.

That is not merely incompetence, one spokesperson said. This is a cover up. The victims are the ones who are suffering: our children, our elders and all who trusted their government to keep them safe.”

The outrage grows with the spread of the scandal. Not merely a water crisis- this is a reckoning. An insistence on truth. An accountability rallying cry. Alexandria makes no request, but rather demands of people.

The water caused them sickness. The quiet got them angry. The names will not be forgotten.