From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:45:02 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Contaminated wells around Reese Air Force Base (TX) |
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. ... 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. … 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 -- 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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