From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Fri, 3 Jan 2020 15:35:58 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "This Sierra Club volunteer works to reduce toxic contamination in Colorado" |
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. … For the entire article, see https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2020-1-january-february/grilled/fran-silva-blayney-forever-fighting-pfas -- 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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