Midway group seeks sources for PFAS contamination

EL PASO COUNTY — A southern El Paso County neighborhood is on the lookout to secure grant cash to tackle a problem it’s facing with contaminated water.

All through the final 10 years, communities in sections of El Paso County have uncovered Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances regarded as PFAs in the water. In 2016, persons dwelling in Safety-Widefield and Fountain realized the contamination arrived from firefighting foam from Peterson Air Force Foundation.

Since the discovery, funding has compensated for various drinking water cure services in the two Security-Widefield and Fountain.

For a person group in southern El Paso County, the PFAs concentrations have been all-around for a long time, but neighbors say you will find a renewed problem for the contamination.

“We’ve been traveling beneath the radar,” Liz Rosenbaum who cofounded the Fountain Valley Thoroughly clean Water Coalition explained, “but once the EPA lowers the MCL [Maximum Contamination Levels] standards to 20 or fewer, we’re heading to have quite a few of our PFAS ranges exceed that new advisory so that places into a form of crisis zone.

Rosenbaum moved to Midway in 2018 but has lived in southern El Paso county for decades. The h2o company for the location is Wigwam Mutal H2o Firm.

She not too long ago had h2o testing accomplished for her dwelling and three other people in the neighborhood. The modern tests showed the total amount of PFAS ended up earlier mentioned the 70 sections for each trillion at this time thought of unsafe. There are a lot of varieties of PFAs and some of the unique ones tested, it confirmed figures in the 20 sections for each trillion.

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KOAA, Midway water test success

Exam outcomes exhibit stages of contaminants nevertheless exist in the Midway space of El Paso County.

Rosenbaum said those numbers are

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