[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: Editorial: "El Paso County [CO] water contamination shows need for statewide limits"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

El Paso County water contamination shows need for statewide limits


By THE EDITORIAL BOARD 
DENVER POST (CO)
September 28, 2017 

Colorado health officials should take the contamination crisis in El Paso County into their own hands and set a limit for the allowable concentration of unhealthy chemicals found in drinking water.

Certainly the U.S. Air Force has responded quickly to findings in 2016 that the military air base east of Colorado Springs had contaminated ground water with harmful perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs, through a flame retardant used to fight fires at the airport.

PFCs are used in a number of consumer products and have been linked by scientists to problems like low birth weights, and kidney and testicular cancers. The chemicals are thought to endanger pregnant women, infants and children the mos

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/28/el-paso-county-water-contamination-shows-need-for-statewide-limits/

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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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