[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Ellsworth Air Force Base (SD) won't pay residents' water bills

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Searching for a solution

by Samuel Blackstone 
Rapid City Journal (SD)
January 13, 2019
 
Every Thursday morning, a bright red Coca-Cola truck circulates through Plainsview Mobile Manor and nearby developments to deliver cases of Dasani water bottles or five-gallon jugs to homes with PFAS-contaminated water.

Simultaneously, the base is exploring more economical short-term solutions like installing reverse osmosis or granulated active carbon filtering systems in people’s homes or directly outside their wells. But the likely long-term solution, it appears, is hooking homes into Box Elder’s municipal water system.

At a Nov. 1, 2018, informational meeting held by base officials, Brian Howard of the Air Force Civil Engineering Center said that if connecting homes into the city system is the agreed-upon solution, homeowners should not expect the base to cover their water bills.

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For the entire article, see
https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/searching-for-a-solution/article_2e0801e1-2816-5808-81a1-4a687cf673cc.html

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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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