[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Family blames Air Force pollution in Colorado Springs (CO) area

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Local family suffers heavy losses — and blames chemicals the EPA reportedly won’t limit 
Bad blood

By Faith Miller
Colorado Springs Independent
February 13, 2019

For Steve Patterson, any decision the Environmental Protection Agency makes around whether to regulate toxic PFASs (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in drinking water is too little, too late.

That’s apparent when he counts off the family members who he believes have already fallen victim to the Air Force firefighting foam that leached into drinking water sources in Fountain, Security-Widefield and the Stratmoor neighborhood of southeast Colorado Springs for decades.

At least 10 of Patterson’s family members and in-laws, including his father, sister, uncle, cousin and niece, have died from different kinds of cancer. A dozen or so more family members are battling cancer. And recently, his 14-year-old grandson required a kidney transplant.

Not all of these people are related by blood, so it’s unlikely that the high occurrence of disease, predominantly kidney- and colon-related, is purely genetic. But Patterson’s family members share at least one deadly risk factor: They all spent years in an area contaminated by chemicals which, according to a recent report in Politico, the EPA doesn’t plan to limit in drinking water.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/local-family-suffers-heavy-losses-and-blames-chemicals-the-epa-reportedly-wont-limit/Content?oid=18525238

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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