[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Tucson, AZ

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

As the EPA narrows in on PFAS regulations, Tucson hopes for federal priority 

By Alisa Reznick
Fronteras (AZ)
March 7, 2024 

PFAS are a group of widely-used, human-made chemicals linked to health issues like cancer and thyroid disease. The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to release a long-awaited set of drinking water standards for the chemicals this year. But contamination has already been found in thousands of communities around the country like Tucson.

The chemicals are found in a range of consumer and industrial products — including a special firefighting foam called AFFF used at airports and military sites like Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in the city’s southside. 

Groundwater here is thought to have been contaminated when that foam mixed with affluent and stormwater and seeped into the ground. Tucson Water Director John Kmeic says chemicals spread out from here.

“So groundwater slowly travels, but it still travels from central Tucson to the northwest towards Marana,” he said. “You see impacted groundwater at those two facilities — Davis Monthan, as well as the Morris Air National Guard Base — but then you see groundwater underneath, where the washes and streams, then the Santa Cruz River, going north all the way through the town of Marana.”

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For the entire article, see
https://fronterasdesk.org/content/1873337/epa-narrows-pfas-regulations-tucson-hopes-federal-priority

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Lenny Siegel
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