[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Military providing water to Yakima Valley [WA} homes after tests show it contaminated area's wells"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military providing water to Yakima Valley homes after tests show it contaminated area's wells

By Eilis O’Neill
KUOW Public Radio (WA)
September 19, 2022

Military training exercises contaminated the drinking water of nearly 100 homes in the Yakima Valley.

New test results show that the drinking water wells near the Army’s Yakima Training Center are contaminated with chemicals that increase the risks of certain kinds of cancer and other health conditions. The military is now providing bottled water for drinking and cooking to those residences.

The contamination stems from a firefighting foam that the military used at the training center for decades, up until 2016. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.kuow.org/stories/military-providing-water-to-yakima-valley-homes-after-tests-show-it-contaminated-area-s-wells

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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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