[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Mountain Home Air Force Base and Bowen Field, Idaho

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Idaho works to find and remove “forever chemicals” in our water

By Audrey Dutton 
Idaho Capitol Sun
April 25, 2021


When you pour a glass of water from your kitchen tap, you expect it to be clean. You expect it not to be contaminated with toxic “forever chemicals.”

And if you live in Boise, your expectations are most likely true.

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That doesn’t mean Idaho is PFAS free, though. At least two places in Idaho’s Treasure Valley have been flagged for higher levels of PFAS in water — Mountain Home Air Force Base and Gowen Field in Boise.

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For the entire article, see
https://magicvalley.com/news/local/idaho-works-to-find-and-remove-forever-chemicals-in-our-water/article_b30837fb-b0ba-52cd-b32a-4a1de5ab8537.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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