[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "North Pole [AK] Considers Groundwater-protection Measure, Prepares to Expand Water System"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

North Pole Considers Groundwater-protection Measure, Prepares to Expand Water System 

By TIM ELLIS 
KUAC (AK)
August 27 21, 2017 

The North Pole City Council tonight will consider awarding a contract to an engineering company to develop a plan intended to protect the community’s groundwater from contamination. The mayor says the plan is needed to ensure the city will be able to expand its municipal water system to areas where the groundwater already is contaminated.

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Ward says the city also may end up extending its water system to Moose Creek, if the Air Force chooses that option for dealing with groundwater contamination in that area caused by perfluorinated compounds from Eielson Air Force Base that have infiltrated area groundwater.

“The Air Force has to decide what they would like to do with that,” he said, “and then they also have to find funding.”

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For the entire article, see
http://fm.kuac.org/post/north-pole-considers-groundwater-protection-measure-prepares-expand-water-system

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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