[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Feds meet with Montco, Bucks [PA} residents on water contamination at bases"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Feds meet with Montco, Bucks residents on water contamination at bases 


by  Justine McDaniel &  Laura McCrystal 
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
JULY 25, 2018

Residents and local officials had one major message for the Environmental Protection Agency at a Montgomery County meeting Wednesday: Do more to help communities like theirs that are dealing with tainted water and to develop regulations for the chemicals that polluted their towns — and don’t make them pay for it.

Hundreds of residents and officials attended the daylong meeting convened by the EPA in Horsham, part of a summer tour to visit communities affected by water contamination from chemicals known as PFAS used on military bases.

It is the first such coordinated outreach in local communities since the contamination was discovered four years ago. Throughout the morning, a Washington-based contingent representing the EPA, the Department of Defense, and other agencies laid out its findings and plans to address the contamination. Then the group heard from state, local government, and community panels before beginning a public comment session scheduled to last until 9 p.m.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/feds-hear-from-horsham-epa-meeting-military-water-contamination-20180725.html

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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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