[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Drinking water in three Colorado cities contaminated with toxic chemicals above EPA limits"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Drinking water in three Colorado cities contaminated with toxic chemicals above EPA limits
80,000 people south of Colorado Springs being warned of high levels of PFCs in water

By BRUCE FINLEY
Denver Post (CO)
June 15, 2016 

Invisible toxic chemicals are contaminating drinking water for 80,000 people south of Colorado Springs, one of 63 areas nationwide where the chemicals, widely used to fight petroleum fires, have been measured at levels the EPA deems dangerous.

These perfluorinated chemicals rank among the worst in an expanding multitude of unregulated contaminants that federal scientists are detecting in city water supplies, including hormones, pesticides, antibiotics and anti-depressants. Perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) don’t break down. Boiling water won’t get rid of them.

Military airfields are suspected by Colorado health investigators as a point where the chemicals seeped into the Fountain Creek watershed north of Widefield, Fountain and Security. Air Force officials told The Denver Post it’s too early to tell.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/06/15/colorado-widefield-fountain-security-water-chemicals-toxic-epa/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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