[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Arizona Governor "Ducey sends $2M to Tucson to restart water plant shut by military pollution"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ducey sends $2M to Tucson to restart water plant shut by military pollution
Ducey, city leaders criticize Defense Department's handling of PFAS plume, demand funding for cleanup

By Paul Ingram
Tucson Sentinel (AZ)
June 21, 2021

The state of Arizona will provide $2 million to help Tucson Water restart a treatment plant shut down because of severe groundwater contamination near the Tucson International Airport from firefighting foam used by the military.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and the office of Gov. Doug Ducey will provide  the funding, officials announced Monday.

Earlier this month, Tucson officials, including Mayor Regina Romero, decided to halt operations at the water plant as a precaution after tests showed increasingly high-levels of PFAS — a chemical that was once used in firefighting foam — moving in a plume toward the Tucson Airport Remediation Project, a water treatment effort designed to mitigate the presence of other chemicals, including the industrial solvent known as trichloroethene, or TCE. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/062121_ducey_tucson_water/ducey-sends-2m-tucson-restart-water-plant-shut-by-military-pollution/

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Lenny Siegel
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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