[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Fairbanks (AK) "Airport to Connect Homes to College Utilities In Response to Groundwater Contamination"

[Lenny Siegel]

Airport to Connect Homes to College Utilities In Response to Groundwater Contamination 

By TIM ELLIS 
KUAC FM News (Fairbanks, AK)
March 14, 2018 

More than 60 homes around Fairbanks International Airport will be hooked-up to the College Utilities water system this summer, because area residents can’t get their drinking water from wells anymore due to groundwater contamination. But about 50 homeowners and others who showed up at a meeting Tuesday say they still have a lot of questions about the project – and the contamination.

Representatives of an engineering firm hired by Fairbanks International say residents of a neighborhood west of the airport and east of the Chena River will have to put up with a lot of construction work this summer while contractors lay pipe to bring in drinking water.

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For the entire story, see
http://fm.kuac.org/post/airport-connect-homes-college-utilities-response-groundwater-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>
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