[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "State is testing surface water in East Selah for PFAS as Army installs more home filter systems, " Yakima Training Center, WA

[Lenny Siegel]

State is testing surface water in East Selah for PFAS as Army installs more home filter systems

By SANTIAGO OCHOA 
Yakima Herald-Republic (WA)
May 11, 2024

Jacob Carnes wades into the cold waters of Elton Pond in East Selah. He walks forward a few feet until the water is almost up to his hips, his neoprene waders keeping him dry and warm.

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Carnes and White are environmental specialists with the Washington State Department of Ecology. They dedicated the last days of April and the first of May to visiting other ponds, irrigation systems and the Yakima River to collect samples and test them for PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. They are sometimes called forever chemicals because they can linger for years in the environment.

The samples they collect are part of a year-long study by Ecology to look at the possible spread of forever chemicals from the Yakima Training Center around East Selah.



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For the entire article, see
https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/state-is-testing-surface-water-in-east-selah-for-pfas-as-army-installs-more-home/article_60772122-0e36-11ef-9a4e-e3bb28ce830f.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)