[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "California Water Board, Los Angeles Times fail to inform the public of the extent...]

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

California Water Board, Los Angeles Times fail to inform the public of the extent

By Ali Tadayon
LA Progressive 9CA)
October 28, 2019

Last week, the California State Water Resources Control Board released data it has collected on PFAS contamination in wells across the state. 
Anyone reasonably informed about PFAS, who examined their raw data, would conclude that California water resources are in a terrible condition and that the health of hundreds of thousands of California residents are at risk by drinking the tap water.

The state tested for 14 of the more than 5,000 varieties of PFAS, including two of the most notorious varieties known to threaten human health, PFOS and PFOA.

The Water Board directs the public to this page on PFAS.  People are instructed to select the “Drinking Water” tab and then “Public Water System Testing Results,” but the new results on PFAS testing cannot be found this way. To find the entire PFAS database in excel format, the public must know what to look for or be directed by staff. To access the raw PFAS data, entering “First round of PFAS sampling” will result in the fifth entry containing a link to the excel spreadsheet: “PFAS Monitoring np TP.” The spreadsheet contains 9,130 rows of data, making it difficult for the water-drinking public to decipher – if they can find it.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.laprogressive.com/pfas-contamination-continues/

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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
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