[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: Whidbey Island (WA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Introduces Toxins to Drinking Water, Then Expands Operations

By Dahr Jamail
Truthout 
July 12, 2017 


Washington State's Whidbey Island already has problems with inadequate water supplies. Located in Puget Sound, the residents have to face a long, dry summer with no aquifer replenishment and ongoing threats of saltwater intrusion.

But now they have to deal with the US Navy introducing toxic chemicals into Whidbey Island's public and private wells, particularly in the area around the small town of Coupeville, where the Navy maintains a heavily used air strip to practice touch-and-go landings, among other exercises.

Cate Andrews is a member of Citizens for Ebeys Reserve (COER), a group of locals working to protect their land, homes and health from environmental and sound pollution from the US Navy. Andrews said some of the wells in Coupeville contain toxic chemicals from the Navy's firefighting foam exercises at levels 400 percent over what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers acceptable.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41235-navy-introduces-toxins-to-drinking-water-then-expands-operations

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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