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“An Air Force plan to address PFAS contamination of drinking water that comes from two of its facilities on Tucson’s south side has been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The agency approved a preliminary plan outlined by the Air Force that would involve working with Tucson Water to cover costs of past and future PFAS treatment at the utility’s south-side treatment plant, EPA said Tuesday in the news release.
The plant, near Interstate 19 and Irvington Road, has been removing PFAS from groundwater since the late 2010s, and Tucson Water was already awarded a federal grant to build another plant to accelerate the cleanup.”…