From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:35:36 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Ellsworth Air Force Base (SD) won't pay residents' water bills |
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. … For the entire article, see https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/searching-for-a-solution/article_2e0801e1-2816-5808-81a1-4a687cf673cc.html -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org |
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