[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Updates To Tucson [AZ] Water Plant Address Newly Found Contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Updates To Tucson Water Plant Address Newly Found Contamination

By Claire Caulfield
KJZZ Public Radio (AZ)
December 17, 2018

A water treatment plant in Tucson is replacing more than 56 tons of activated carbon to address newly-discovered perfluorinated compound contamination from the nearby Superfund site.

“The fact that we have a treatment plant there at all is entirely driven by the Superfund site,” said Tim Thomure, director of Tucson Water.

The 10-square-mile Tucson International Airport site was designed as a Superfund in 1983. Superfund sites are considered some of the most contaminated places in the county.

The water treatment plant was set up 11 years later to address the groundwater contamination.

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For the entire story, see
https://kjzz.org/content/738011/updates-tucson-water-plant-address-newly-found-contamination

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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
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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