2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:14:23 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Delaware officials to pitch permanent fix to tainted drinking water"
 
Delaware officials to pitch permanent fix to tainted drinking water

by Maddy Lauria
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
February 13, 2018

Local and state officials will meet with Blades residents on Tuesday evening to share updates on a permanent solution to the contaminated drinking water recently found in town wells.

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary Shawn Garvin said on Monday that officials plan to install a carbon-filtration system onto Blades' public water system to rid drinking water of elevated levels of perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, in the public drinking water sources as soon as possible.

People can still get water by bringing their own containers to fill from large tanks set up by the Delaware National Guard at the fire hall between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2018/02/12/sussex-county-town-meet-public-tainted-drinking-water/328605002/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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