[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Peterson Air Force Base to supply $108, 000 in bottled water to some Colorado Springs-area residents"

[Lenny Siegel]

Peterson Air Force Base to supply $108,000 in bottled water to some Colorado Springs-area residents

By Jakob Rodgers  
Colorado Springs Gazette
July 21, 2016 

Volunteers, left to right, Rosemary Calderaro, Michelle Betsayda and Jennifer Allen with Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado helped give away bottled water Friday, July 1, 216, at St. Dominic Catholic Church. The food bank is giving away the water after chemical know as perflourinated compounds were found in Security, Widefield and Fountain water supplies at levels the EPA considers unsafe. 

The Air Force will supply $108,000 in bottled water to residents whose drinking water has been contaminated with toxic chemicals that may have originated from Peterson Air Force Base.

Private well owners and people in several small water systems south of Colorado Springs will be eligible to receive the bottled water, said Steve Brady, a base spokesman.
Those places include the Fountain Valley Shopping Center, Security Mobile Home Park and NORAD View Mobile Home Park, according to the installation's news release.

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http://gazette.com/peterson-air-force-base-to-supply-108000-in-bottled-water-to-some-colorado-springs-area-residents/article/1580898

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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