Read the full article by Monica Amarelo (Environmental Working Group)
“WASHINGTON – The Defense Department is under fire for a new memo revealing it will provide clean drinking water only to communities polluted by the toxic ‘forever chemicals‘ at levels much higher than new federal limits.
To qualify for safer water, well owners must have a water supply three times more polluted than strict new federal PFAS drinking water limits allow.
The September 3 memo does not explain how or why the military chose the ‘three times’ threshold. The arbitrary decision lets the Pentagon off the hook for supplying as much safe water as it would need to if it followed the stricter limits. So it would not be obligated to give safe drinking water immediately to communities near dozens of bases in at least 21 states, where PFAS have been detected above the federal limits but below the three-times threshold.”…