[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Air Force asking Congress how to reimburse communities for water contamination"

[Lenny Siegel]

Air Force asking Congress how to reimburse communities for water contamination

by Barrie Barber
Dayton Daily News (OH)
March 14, 2018 

The second highest-ranking civilian leader in the Air Force says the service branch has approached Congress about how to send money to communities impacted by tainted groundwater contamination from nearby bases.

The city of Dayton has pressed the Air Force for nearly $1 million to cover the costs of an environmental study and testing to determine the extent a firefighting foam contaminant potentially threatens the Huffman Dam well field that was shut down as a precaution last April. The city says the contamination could migrate from Wright-Patterson — which temporary shuttered two tainted wells on base — but the Air Force has said under an environmental federal law it cannot reimburse the city for its costs.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/air-force-asking-congress-how-reimburse-communities-for-water-contamination/JTnS61M63m1AyxIjq0W0fO/

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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