[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Dayton [OH]: Contaminated sites could pose risk to Mad River well fields"

[Lenny Siegel]

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Dayton: Contaminated sites could pose risk to Mad River well fields

Barrie Barber
Dayton Daily News (OH)
February 22, 2018 


Dayton has shuttered two Mad River well field drinking water production sites over fears of the potential for contamination from a firefighting foam contaminant that could eventually threaten dozens of additional groundwater wells, a city leader said.

The city closed five drinking water wells at the Tait’s Hill well field in early 2016 as a precaution because of concerns about hot spots of contamination where the foam was sprayed at the nearby Dayton firefighting training center on McFadden Avenue off Springfield Street, officials said this week.

Dayton stopped pumping drinking water at seven groundwater wells at the Huffman Dam well field last April where an early warning groundwater monitoring network showed per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances city officials believe were part of a contamination plume migrating from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-contaminated-sites-could-pose-risk-mad-river-well-fields/mrRUeZV1Axzh21wYjMcF0K/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
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