| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Fri, 20 May 2016 07:44:10 -0700 (PDT) |
| Reply: | cpeo-military |
| Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFCs: Pennsylvania "Pa. offers bottled water to residents near tainted [Naval] air stations" |
Pa. offers bottled water to residents near tainted air stations by Laura McCrystal Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) May 19, 2016 State officials on Thursday began offering free bottled water to people who live near the former naval air stations in Montgomery and Bucks Counties, which are blamed for contaminating public drinking wells. The distribution of as many as two cases per day to residents in Warminster, Warrington, and Horsham Townships is a "precautionary action," Gov. Wolf said in a statement announcing the initiative. It occurred on the same day that federal officials released new guidelines that set a lower bar for the level of acceptable water contamination than what has been used as the standard in Horsham and Warminster. It was not immediately clear if the change would affect efforts to reduce contamination in those communities. … For the entire article, see http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160522_Free_water_offered_to_residents_near_tainted_air_stations.html -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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