From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Mon, 2 Dec 2019 23:25:52 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Toxic PFAS levels spike in south-side Tucson [AZ] well-testing area" |
Toxic PFAS levels spike in south-side Tucson well-testing area By Tony Davis Arizona Daily Star December 2, 2019 By far the highest levels of the PFAS family of toxic compounds ever found in the Tucson area have turned up in a swath of the south side’s aquifer, directly north of an Air National Guard base adjoining Tucson International Airport. While city drinking supplies aren’t contaminated there, three private wells in the same area have turned up with PFAS concentrations exceeding what the EPA says should be served to people, Tucson Water officials say. The PFAS levels, discovered in a series of city monitoring well tests, peaked at 13,850 parts per trillion. That’s nearly 200 times the Environmental Protection Agency’s health advisory recommendation for drinking water of 70 parts per trillion. … For the entire article, see https://tucson.com/news/local/toxic-pfas-levels-spike-in-south-side-tucson-well-testing/article_acf5efd0-d4d0-50d8-9472-9103b8849100.html -- 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 http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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