[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Colorado mulls state limit for groundwater contamination from PFCs"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Colorado mulls state limit for groundwater contamination from PFCs
PFCs have been linked to health issues, including low birth weights and kidney and testicular cancers

By BRUCE FINLEY 
Denver Post (CO)
September 17, 2017 

COLORADO SPRINGS - Colorado health officials grappling with groundwater contamination from firefighting foam - containing a toxic chemical the federal government allows - have proposed to set a state limit to prevent more problems.

A Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment limit for the perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) also could give leverage in compelling cleanup by the Air Force, which has confirmed high levels of PFCs spreading from a military air base east of Colorado Springs. More than 65,000 residents who relied on the underground Widefield Aquifer as a water source have had to find alternative supplies or install new water-cleaning systems as a plume of PFCs contamination moves south through the Fountain Valley watershed.

“We need to be able to have not just a carrot, but a stick,” CDPHE environmental toxicologist Kristy Richardson said last week, discussing the effort to set a state limit.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/17/colorado-state-limit-pfcs-contamination-groundwater/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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