[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Farmers cry foul over foam from Cannon AFB" (NM)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Farmers cry foul over foam from Cannon AFB

BY THERESA DAVIS
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
August 11, 2019

Clovis farmer and Curry County Commissioner Seth Martin was told by the Air Force late last summer that his water might be contaminated with chemicals from firefighting foam used at nearby Cannon Air Force Base.

Martin, who grows wheat and sorghum on a family farm five miles west of the base, had never even heard of PFAS – or per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, the chemical culprit – before the Air Force reached out.

Martin said he takes issue with the Air Force filtering contaminated water but not quickly cleaning up groundwater that affects Clovis agriculture.

“I don’t want to badmouth the Department of Defense,” Martin said, “but I also don’t think it’s good to put a band-aid on a gushing wound. They need to do more. We need a cleanup process, not just litigation.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.abqjournal.com/1352438/farmers-cry-foul-over-foam-from-cannon-afb.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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