[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "This Sierra Club volunteer works to reduce toxic contamination in Colorado"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fran Silva-Blayney Is Forever Fighting PFAS
This Sierra Club volunteer works to reduce toxic contamination in Colorado

BY WENDY BECKTOLD
Sierra Magazine
December 30, 2019

Tell me about the Fountain Creek Water Sentinels.

Our main function is to monitor Fountain Creek, which runs through Colorado Springs, for selenium and E. coli contamination. The data that we collect is used by state agencies to help make policy decisions. I got involved because I've always had an interest in water quality. I like to go fly-fishing, so I spend a lot of time on different bodies of water.

You have also been instrumental in the chapter's work on PFAS contamination. How did that come about?

In 2016, we were approached by a local farmer who told us that her farm had been shut down because of PFAS [per- and polyfluoroalkl substances] contamination. The local aquifer had been contaminated by the firefighting foam used for training exercises at Peterson Air Force Base. They would fill a hangar with the foam and then wash it right into the municipal sewer system, or they would put it in unlined pits so it seeped into the groundwater.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2020-1-january-february/grilled/fran-silva-blayney-forever-fighting-pfas

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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
http://www.cpeo.org





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