[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Peterson Air Force Base [CO] dumped 150,000 gallons of PFC-laced water into Colorado Springs’ sewer system"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Peterson Air Force Base dumped 150,000 gallons of PFC-laced water into Colorado Springs’ sewer system
Colorado Springs and Pueblo officials say drinking water is not affected by the spill

By	 Bruce Finley 
Denver Post (CO)
October 19, 2016 

U.S. Air Force officials Tuesday disclosed a 150,000-gallon spill of wastewater laced with invisible toxic perfluorinated chemicals, discharged at least six days ago from a tank at Peterson Air Force Base, into the Colorado Springs sewer system.

The spill, which Air Force officials said they’re investigating, happened as the Air Force increasingly faces scrutiny as a source of groundwater contamination nationwide.

The surge of waste containing elevated perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) — used at military airfields to douse fuel fires and linked by federal authorities to kidney cancer, testicular cancer, low birth weights and other health problems — flowed through a Colorado Springs Utilities wastewater treatment plant before crews could try to block it. Then it trickled into Fountain Creek.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/18/peterson-air-force-base-laced-water-spill/

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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