[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Contaminated wells around Reese Air Force Base (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force hosting public meeting Tuesday to give update on contaminated water wells around Reese


By Matt Dotray
Austin American-Statesman (TX)
June 3, 2019 
 
 
The Air Force Civil Engineer Center will host a public meeting Tuesday to provide residents an update and discuss the next steps involving the contaminated water wells around the old Reese Air Force Base west of Lubbock.

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The Air Force has installed 181 whole-house treatment systems consisting of granular activated carbon and ion exchange resin, according to a news release, at the affected homes and will install the remaining systems by the end of June 2019.

To date, 480 drinking water wells have been sampled - 222 private wells and three public wells exceed the EPA’s Lifetime Health Advisory levels of 70 parts per trillion for Perfluorooctane Sulfonate and Perfluorooctanoic Acid, and/or additional PFAS for which the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has published Protective Concentration Levels, according to the Air Force.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.statesman.com/news/20190603/air-force-hosting-public-meeting-tuesday-to-give-update-on-contaminated-water-wells-around-reese

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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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