[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Sacramento County, CA water supplier wants Air Force to pay for treatment of chemicals from former Mather Air Force Base

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water company wants Air Force to pay for contamination cleanup

By Mark Anderson 
Sacramento Business Journal (CA)
October 12, 2019

A provider of drinking water in Sacramento County is seeking reimbursement from the U.S. Air Force for a filtration system it installed to take contaminants out of groundwater near the former Mather Air Force Base.

California American Water built a $1.3 million treatment plant in Sacramento County after it discovered in 2016 that one of its wells was contaminated by polyfluoroalkyl, or PFAS, which is a foam the Air Force used to control airplane fires.

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Sacramento County is served by 27 different water providers in a patchwork of different areas. The areas close to Mather Field are operated by California American Water and Sacramento County Water Agency. California American Water is a subsidiary of Camden, New Jersey-based American Water Works Company In

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For the entire article, see
https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2019/10/12/water-company-wants-air-force-to-pay-for.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
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