[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Dayton files $300 million drinking water contamination lawsuit against Wright-Patt" (OH)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dayton files $300 million drinking water contamination lawsuit against Wright-Patt

By Ismail Turay Jr.
Dayton Daily News (OH)
May 4, 2021

The city of Dayton formally filed a drinking water contamination lawsuit against Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the U.S. Department of Defense on Monday, seeking damages of up to $300 million.

The suit, filed in the Southern District of Ohio, accuses the base and the DoD of failing to stop water containing a group of so-called “forever chemicals” known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances - or PFAS - from flowing daily into the city’s Mad River Wellfield. The wellfield is one of several that Dayton uses to supply drinking water to more than 400,000 customers in Dayton and Montgomery County.

The contaminants affect surface water, groundwater and the soil in the wellfield ― which borders the base’s Areas A and B ― according to the lawsuit. Several PFAS hotspots exist on the base, and failure to act now will cost millions of dollars, the city said in April.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-files-300-million-drinking-water-contamination-lawsuit-against-wright-patt/ZUFMRQOBWRGJNDDMXXTXJGWRTM/

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Lenny Siegel
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