| From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:20:25 -0800 (PST) |
| Reply: | cpeo-military |
| Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFAS, VOCs: Tucson, AZ airport commingled plume |
PFAS contamination in south Tucson challenges historic cleanup, revives health concerns by Clara Migoy and Zayna Syed Arizona Republic January 16, 2023 TUCSON — Linda Shosie drove down the streets of southside Tucson pointing out, across several blocks, what she’s determined are “clusters” of disease. Knocking door-to-door, through home visits and phone calls, she collected testimonies of people who, like her family, suffer from cancer or other severe illness, presumably linked to drinking water contaminated decades ago. … Under Superfund agreements, the TARP plant is required to treat TCE and dioxane only. But the presence of PFAS, and its threat over public health, has complicated and even disrupted operations. For about five months, from mid to late 2021, the city and the utility temporarily closed the plant. Water testing indicated that PFAS levels in wells south of the TARP plant had jumped dramatically. GAC filters that were already sequestering PFAS would not handle the increase. This new level of contamination could “overwhelm the facility,” officials said. After establishing new measures to lower PFAS levels and getting EPA approval, TARP now sends water, cleared for PFAS and all other contaminants, into the Santa Cruz River wash. … For the entire article, see https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2023/01/16/tucson-water-contaminated-by-pfas-health-concerns-amplified/69807318007/ — 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 Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org) _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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