[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Ellsworth Air Force Base (SD)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Community update on the Pennington County contaminated water issue

By Humberto Giles-Sanchez
Black Hills Fox (SD)
March 29, 2023 

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) - Work continues on the water-contamination problem affecting various families and individuals in some areas around the Ellsworth Air Force Base.

A community town hall meeting on Tuesday focused on answering some of the questions many residents may have had regarding where the various projects involving the incident are at.

One Pennington County resident who uses a well to get water asked about the possibility of paying a city water bill once his property was connected to the “Ellsworth Community Clean Water Project” proposed water main. The managing director of the South Dakota Ellsworth Development Authority said payments for the water main would start 20 years after the project is finished or until the property was sold.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.blackhillsfox.com/2023/03/29/community-update-pennington-county-contaminated-water-issue/

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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
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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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