[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Residents near former Reese Air Force base [TX] still dealing with contaminated water"

[Lenny Siegel]

Residents near former Reese Air Force base still dealing with contaminated water

By Paige Pauroso 
KAMC News/Everything Lubbock (TX)
November 21, 2018

LUBBOCK, Texas - It's been almost a year since we first told you residents near the former Reese Air Force base had contaminated water. We learned it's still a problem residents are dealing with more than nine months later. 

The Air Force found 191 contaminated wells in a standard search early in 2017. The drinking water was contaminated with chemicals used for putting out fires.

"Lot of investigation to do and a lot of clean up to do," said Paul Carroll, Air Force program manager at the former base. "The actual cleanup of the ground water is going to take a long time."

The Air Force has been delivering bottled water to residents to drink, cook and even brush their teeth with. It's also almost finished installing nearly 200 water filter systems. Those systems allow residents to get clean drinking water from their taps. 

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For the entire story, see
https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/kamc-news/residents-near-former-reese-air-force-base-still-dealing-with-contaminated-water/1610677927

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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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