From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Sat, 21 Nov 2020 09:49:41 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "What happens when a rural area’s only well is contaminated?" (CA) |
What happens when a rural area’s only well is contaminated? BY REBECCA SOHN Cal Matters (CA) NOVEMBER 21, 2020 In the spring of 2013, Jocelyn Walters and her partners moved Nativearth, their small shoe business, into a warehouse in Mariposa Industrial Park that gave them more space to grow. But there was one quirk of the new space she hadn’t foreseen. The industrial park, which has only four businesses and isn’t connected to the town’s water system, gets its water from a well on her family’s property on the outskirts of Yosemite National Park. So Walters found herself helping run a water company from a shoe business. Odd, tiny, rural water systems like this are a remnant of California’s past, but they face modern problems: The Mariposa Industrial Park Water Company has only one well — and it is highly contaminated with an industrial chemical known as PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid). … For the entire article, see https://calmatters.org/projects/california-rural-contaminated-wells-forever-chemicals/ -- 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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