[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Dayton [OH] urges communities to push Wright-Patt for action on water"

[Lenny Siegel]

Dayton urges communities to push Wright-Patt for action on water

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


Dayton has called on neighboring communities to send a message to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to more urgently resolve concerns over the potential threat of contamination of a drinking water aquifer from tainted groundwater.

The city has urged city managers to join it in signing a letter asking the base’s commander to act quickly prior to groundwater contaminated with a byproduct of firefighting foam reaches seven city drinking water wells shut down as a precaution in April at Huffman Dam near the base boundary along the Mad River.

So far, some communities have said they will not sign the letter, at least one has endorsed Dayton’s efforts while others say they are studying the problem and weighing options.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/dayton-urges-communities-push-wright-patt-for-action-water/LOUb2UThiBygJfYtyLQTVL/

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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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