Read the full article by Payton May (13 News).
“The country’s leading experts on PFAS are gathering in Tucson for the first time ever.
The compounds, also known as forever chemicals, have contaminated Tucson’s water supply for four decades.
‘It’s a really big deal to be able to bring the voices that we hear, the stories we hear locally, to a national audience, to talk about what’s happening in the rest of America,’ said Paloma Beamer, National PFAS Conference co-chair and the Associate Dean for Community Engagement in the College of Public Health at the University of Arizona.
This is the first time the conference has been held in the southwest and one of the few times in a community directly affected by PFAS contamination. Conference leaders say that it’s important for attending researchers to hear and learn from those at the forefront of this issue.
The forever chemicals, found in things like common household cleaners and fire retardants, have contaminated Tucson’s water supply for decades. One of the biggest sources of PFAS contamination is the foam used to fight aircraft fires at airports and military bases, including Davis-Monthan, across the country for decades.”…