[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Warwick [PA] homeowners caught in limbo as military investigates contamination"

[Lenny Siegel]

Warwick homeowners caught in limbo as military investigates contamination


By Kyle Bagenstose 
Intelligencer (PA)
November 26, 2017


Homeowners with contaminated water wells have waited more than a year to be connected to the public system. But the military now says it might not be its fault.

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Hecht, 55, is one of the more than 200 homeowners straddling the Bucks-Montgomery county line who have received bad news about their private water wells in recent years. Hecht’s came in the form of a September 2016 letter from the Navy.

“Your well tested above the lifetime health advisory for PFOS and/or PFOA,” the letter read, referring to toxic firefighting foam chemicals used for decades at nearby bases that studies have linked to a variety of health effects including some cancers.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theintell.com/news/20171126/warwick-homeowners-caught-in-limbo-as-military-investigates-contamination

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org