[CPEO-MEF] PFCs, HEALTH: "Elevated cancer rates found south of Colorado Springs [CO] where water supplies contain toxic chemicals"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Elevated cancer rates found south of Colorado Springs where water supplies contain toxic chemicals
Public water supply issues continue in Widefield, Security area

ByBRUCE FINLEY 
Denver Post (CO)
July 5, 2016 

State health officials have found elevated cancer rates among residents of an area south of Colorado Springs where public water supplies contain toxic chemicals at levels exceeding an EPA health limit.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment emphasized, in a preliminary health assessment, that there’s no established link between these perflourinated chemicals (PFCs) and the elevated kidney, lung and bladder cancer documented in Security, Widefield and Fountain.

Air Force officials on Tuesday confirmed they are stepping in with $4.3 million to set up a temporary water treatment system to try to reduce exposures to contaminated water. The Air Force also has agreed to accelerate testing at military airfields suspected as a source. They are doing this as a “good neighbor gesture,” officials said, not as an admission of fault\

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For the entire article, see
https://www.denverpost.com/2016/07/05/toxic-water-cancer-colorado-springs-air-force/
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