2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 15:11:31 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs, PFAS: "Contaminated water mistakenly sent to thousands of Tucson [AZ] Water customers"
 
Contaminated water mistakenly sent to thousands of Tucson Water customers

By Tony Davis 
Arizona Daily Star
September 30, 2018 

Tucson Water recently shut down a treatment plant after discovering it was sending water contaminated with chemical compounds to thousands of residents of downtown and the city’s west and north sides.

Shortly after making that discovery, utility officials also learned that they had mistakenly thought for some time that uncontaminated water was coming out of the plant, which has long treated south-side water pollution.

The utility had been sampling the water at a point its officials thought was connected to the south-side treatment plant, but which actually was getting water from other sources, administrators said last week.

It turned out that water coming out of the treatment plant was now tainted with what’s known as perfluorinated chemicals, also known as PFAS compounds. The treatment plant had been built and later upgraded to treat two other pollutants - the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) and 1,4-dioxane - but not to treat PFAS.

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For the entire article, see
https://tucson.com/laestrella/ciudad/contaminated-water-mistakenly-sent-to-thousands-of-tucson-water-customers/article_be6e60e0-c4c4-11e8-af8d-f3a66a6f6bf9.html

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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@cpeo.org>
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