[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Des Moine Iowa Air National Guard base

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Des Moines Water Works Official Says More Testing Needed, After PFAS Found At Area Military Base 

By KATE PAYNE 
Iowa Public Radio
March 22, 2019

The Des Moines Water Works plans to do more testing for toxic chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS, after high levels were detected at a nearby military base. Groundwater contamination at the Iowa Air National Guard base in Des Moines is nearly 200 times the federal government’s health advisory, according to a recently published military analysis obtained by Iowa Public Radio.

Des Moines Water Works officials don’t think toxic chemicals known as PFAS are ending up in finished water that flows through customers’ taps. That’s based on past testing done in 2014 and 2015, in coordination with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and the Environmental Protection Agency.

But it’s hard to say definitively, because the utility doesn’t routinely screen for PFAS, and hasn’t done any testing for the chemicals since it participated in the voluntary study a few years ago.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/des-moines-water-works-official-says-more-testing-needed-after-pfas-found-area-military-base#stream/0

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