Ducey calls on feds to act on water contamination near Arizona Air Force bases that threatens drinking water Joshua Bowling, Arizona Republic
Gov. Doug Ducey is calling on the federal government to act on the water tainted by forever chemicals around Arizona s military bases.
Ducey in a Tuesday letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin called on the feds to investigate and mitigate water contamination near Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, the former Williams Air Force Base in Mesa, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in the Tucson area and Morris Air National Guard Base in the Tucson area.
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Gov. Doug Ducey is calling on the federal government to act on the water tainted by forever chemicals around Arizona s military bases.
Ducey in a Tuesday letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin called on the feds to investigate and mitigate water contamination near Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, the former Williams Air Force Base in Mesa, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in the Tucson area and Morris Air National Guard Base in the Tucson area.
The groundwater around Arizona s U.S. Air Force bases has been contaminated by the chemicals found in a type of firefighting foam used on base. The chemicals, perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, and perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, were found in West Valley drinking water near Luke Air Force Base.
State of the Air: Pima County gets a failing grade, but ozone pollutants are dropping
State of the Air: Pima County gets “F,” but ozone pollutants dropping By Megan McNeil | April 21, 2021 at 5:51 PM MST - Updated April 21 at 5:51 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - According to the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report, Pima County does not pass with flying colors when it comes to ozone pollution levels in fact, it received an “F.”
However, data seems to be going in the right direction.
A dusty Wednesday marked the release of the report in Tucson. Some air monitors around Pima County dipped from “good” to “moderate” as winds picked up particulate matter on April 21, 2021. Red flag warnings went into effect in parts of southern Arizona and high winds in Pinal County lead the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office to warn drivers of blowing dust after a one-car collision.
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