[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Federal lawsuit filed over drinking water contamination on Whidbey" (WA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Federal lawsuit filed over drinking water contamination on Whidbey

By Jessie Stensland
South Whidbey Record (WA)
February 7, 2019
 
Lawyers for a North Whidbey woman filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against a manufacturing corporation and fire equipment companies they say are responsible for contamination of groundwater on the island with “highly toxic” chemicals found in a type of firefighting foam.

Testing by the Navy in recent years showed that wells near the Ault Field base on North Whidbey and Outlying Field Coupeville in Central Whidbey contained per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, collectively known as PFASs, that are present in aqueous film forming foam, or AFFF, used by Navy fire departments to extinguish aircraft fires.

The attorneys are seeking class-action status and hope to add potentially thousands of other current and former Whidbey Island residents as plaintiffs in the lawsuit; the town of Coupeville is also a potential plaintiff, attorneys said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.southwhidbeyrecord.com/news/federal-lawsuit-filed-over-drinking-water-contamination-on-whidbey/

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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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