Re: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: EPA orders PFAS cleanup plan for Tucson Airport site

Lenny ,

So happy to hear this. The people in the Tucson Airport Superfund site area have already suffered enough serious health harms due to the old and outdated tarp treatment facility and it's nine adjacent extraction well fields, which ran for decades, to clean up TCE, but never had the capacity to mitigate the TCE contamination in the first place. If the TARP Treatment Facility or the South Well Field was shut down for any reason including maintenance or other minor stuff, the North Well Field was shut down as well. While the TARP is shut down, people namely the Southside neighborhoods, who were receiving the TARP treated water, had to rely on the CAP recycle water distribution.

Prior to 2021, the City of Tucson water sent PFAS untreated water from the TARP treatment facility to over 600,000 water costumers, namely to the large predominant Latino community on Tucson South side... Many of our children died of cancer related causes believed to be caused by long term exposure to TCE and a mix of other cancer causing chemicals to include PFAS and 1,4 - dioxane. EPA enforcement actions will give us a little bit of hope. We feel like no human should ever have to drink water from a federally run water system. As they are full of poisonous chemicals and Superfund sites have become places where no one wants to live.

Linda

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024, 4:10 PM Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> wrote:

EPA orders the Air Force, Arizona National Guard to clean up groundwater contamination

By Sarah Lapidus
USA TODAY NETWORK
June 12, 2024

PHOENIX — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is demanding the U.S. Air Force and Arizona National Guard take action as concentrations of toxic "forever chemicals" are increasing in the groundwater in a historically contaminated area in the south side of Tuscon, Arizona.

The EPA found the pollution came from the nearby military properties and ordered them to clean up the contamination. High concentrations of PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, were detected in Tucson's groundwater near the Tucson International Airport at the National Guard base and at a property owned by the U.S. Air Force.

The contaminants threaten the groundwater extracted at a water treatment run by Tucson Water in the Tucson Airport Remediation Project area, known as TARP. That water was intended for drinking, the EPA said in its May 29 order.

Samples taken at the treatment plant showed concentrations of PFAS as high as 53,000 parts per trillion, which is 5,300 times the allowable amount. The limit allowed in drinking water ranges from 4 parts per trillion to 10 parts per trillion, depending on the type of PFAS.

…

For the entire article, see
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/12/epa-pfas-cleanup-tuscon-arizona/74067165007/

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From:	Linda Robles <lindarobles39@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:01:19 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject:	Re: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: EPA orders PFAS cleanup plan for Tucson Airport site

Lenny , So happy to hear this. The people in the Tucson Airport Superfund site area have already suffered enough serious health harms due to the old and outdated tarp treatment facility and it's nine adjacent extraction well fields, which ran for decades, to clean up TCE, but never had the capacity to mitigate the TCE contamination in the first place. If the TARP Treatment Facility or the South Well Field was shut down for any reason including maintenance or other minor stuff, the North Well Field was shut down as well. While the TARP is shut down, people namely the Southside neighborhoods, who were receiving the TARP treated water, had to rely on the CAP recycle water distribution. Prior to 2021, the City of Tucson water sent PFAS untreated water from the TARP treatment facility to over 600,000 water costumers, namely to the large predominant Latino community on Tucson South side... Many of our children died of cancer related causes believed to be caused by long term exposure to TCE and a mix of other cancer causing chemicals to include PFAS and 1,4 - dioxane. EPA enforcement actions will give us a little bit of hope. We feel like no human should ever have to drink water from a federally run water system. As they are full of poisonous chemicals and Superfund sites have become places where no one wants to live. Linda On Wed, Jun 12, 2024, 4:10 PM Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> wrote: EPA orders the Air Force, Arizona National Guard to clean up groundwater contamination By Sarah Lapidus USA TODAY NETWORK June 12, 2024 PHOENIX — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is demanding the U.S. Air Force and Arizona National Guard take action as concentrations of toxic "forever chemicals" are increasing in the groundwater in a historically contaminated area in the south side of Tuscon, Arizona. The EPA found the pollution came from the nearby military properties and ordered them to clean up the contamination. High concentrations of PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, were detected in Tucson's groundwater near the Tucson International Airport at the National Guard base and at a property owned by the U.S. Air Force. The contaminants threaten the groundwater extracted at a water treatment run by Tucson Water in the Tucson Airport Remediation Project area, known as TARP. That water was intended for drinking, the EPA said in its May 29 order. Samples taken at the treatment plant showed concentrations of PFAS as high as 53,000 parts per trillion, which is 5,300 times the allowable amount. The limit allowed in drinking water ranges from 4 parts per trillion to 10 parts per trillion, depending on the type of PFAS. … For the entire article, see https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/12/epa-pfas-cleanup-tuscon-arizona/74067165007/ — 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org
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