[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Ion exchange water treatment near Peterson Space Force Base, CO

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. Air Force pays $9 million for cutting-edge water treatment in Fountain following PFAS contamination concerns

BY KATI WEIS
CBS COLORADO
MAY 29, 2023

CBS News Colorado has learned the U.S. Air Force paid $9 million for a new water treatment facility in the city of Fountain, a community south of Colorado Springs, due to past military activities that may have contaminated the city's water supply, which some residents claimed made them sick. 

Fountain city officials say the facility has been in the making since 2016, when the EPA announced how harmful per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, could be for human health at certain levels in drinking water. 

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A spokesperson for the base told CBS News Colorado in an email, "the Air Force has determined that its activities on Peterson Space Force Base may be, among others, a potential source of the PFOS/PFOA contamination affecting Fountain drinking water wells, and that it therefore has authority and responsibility to provide a response to include the construction of a treatment system."

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For the entire story, see
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/air-force-pays-9-million-water-treatment-fountain-pfas-contamination/

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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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