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The extent of contamination in some public drinking water supply wells in Delaware from certain manmade chemical compounds associated with cancer and other health problems is worse than what was discovered several years ago, but state and federal officials have not alerted the public to their findings.
An Environmental Protection Agency spokesman confirmed in a response to a question from The Associated Press that 10 of 14 public supply wells in a 7-square-mile area surrounding the New Castle County Airport have been found with levels of fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS that exceed the EPA s lifetime health advisory levels.
The contamination involves all four New Castle city public wells and six Artesian Water Co. wells. PFAS levels in the city wells ranged from 630 parts per trillion to 4,500 ppt, well above the EPA health advisory level of 70 ppt. Contamination in the Artesian wells ranged from 71 ppt to 1,340 ppt.
3M sues Michigan, seeks to invalidate PFAS drinking water rules
Updated May 07, 4:48 PM;
Posted May 07, 1:42 PM
A hydrant spews drinking water from the Parchment municipal water system following the discovery of PFAS in the water in 2018.Joel Bissell | MLive.com
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LANSING, MI Minnesota chemical manufacturing giant 3M has sued the state of Michigan, claiming the state’s new drinking water limits for the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS are flawed because they were created through a “rushed and invalid regulatory process.”
The lawsuit, filed in the state Court of Claims on April 21, seeks to invalidate the state’s drinking water limits and groundwater cleanup criteria for seven different per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, that went into effect last summer.
Public Health Crisis Looms as California Identifies 600 Communities at Risk of Water-System Failures A new report puts into focus for the first time the scope of the state’s drinking-water problems and what it will take to fix them.
This article originally appeared in The Revelator. Tara Lohan
May 7, 2021
Listen to editor Maureen Nandini Mitra’s conversation about drought and water equity in California with Camille Pannu, a professor of law and community development at UC Irvine, and Nataly Escobedo Garcia, water program policy coordinator for Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability on KPFA Public radio.
A familiar scene has returned to California: drought. Two counties are currently under emergency declarations, and the rest of the state could follow.
Water infrastructure in the small community of Woodville, Calif. | Tara Lohan / Revelator
A familiar scene has returned to California: drought. Two counties are currently under emergency declarations, and the rest of the state could follow.
It was only four years ago when a winter of torrential rain finally wrestled the state out of its last major drought, which had dragged on for five years and left thousands of domestic wells coughing up dust.
That drinking-water crisis made national headlines and helped shine a light on another long-simmering water crisis in California: More than 300 communities have chronically unsafe drinking water containing contaminants that can come with serious health consequences, including cancer. The areas hardest hit are mostly small, agricultural communities in the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys, which are predominantly Latino and are often also places classified by the state as “disadvantaged.” Unsafe water in these communities adds to a
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