[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Water districts charge ahead on contamination fixes" near Peterson Air Force Base (CO)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water districts charge ahead on contamination fixes, while waiting for Air Force to pony up

By Tom Roeder and Jakob Rodgers  
Colorado Springs Gazette (CO)
May 20, 2017 

A crew drills a new well Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at the Southmoor Water Treatment Plant for the Widefield Water and Sanitation District. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)  
The water flowing into Bridgette Swaney's home no longer threatens to cause cancer or weaken her immune system.

But that doesn't mean she'll drink it.

"Now the water tastes like chlorine instead of something else, so I don't know," Swaney said.

For the first time in possibly decades, summer will arrive in southern El Paso County without most residents being exposed to toxic tap water from their faucets.

Security, Widefield and Fountain water leaders made immense gains over the past year improving the region's water quality. The number of people exposed to a class of likely carcinogenic chemicals known as perfluorinated compounds has dropped from tens of thousands to a couple of hundred. And some of residents' worst fears - a plummeting housing market, for example - have yet to materialize.

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For the entire article, see
http://gazette.com/water-districts-charge-ahead-on-contamination-fixes-while-waiting-for-air-force-to-pony-up/article/1603537

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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