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Kansas reportedly allowed hundreds of residents to consume water contaminated by cleaning chemicals for years.
But the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) did not investigate further for six years, The Wichita Eagle reported on Sunday.
After discovering the presence of pollutants, the department did not test nearby private wells or alert residents that their water could be contaminated with Tetrachloroethylene, also known as perchloroethylene or PCE, the publication reported.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, "Effects resulting from acute (short term) high-level inhalation exposure of humans to tetrachloroethylene include irritation of the upper respiratory tract and eyes, kidney dysfunction, and neurological effects such as reversible mood and behavioral changes, impairment of coordination, dizziness, headache, sleepiness, and unconsciousness.
The KDHE found contamination in 2009 but did not sample nearby private wells until 2014.
Since 1995, when the bill was passed, the number of dry cleaning locations known to be contaminated has increased from 14 to 163, even though the state is not actively searching for more sites.
The KDHE says it is doing what it can with the money it receives.
"There’s never going to be enough money to do everything at once, so we have to prioritize.
Almost 21 million people depended on water systems that did not comply with quality standards in 2015, according to a study from the National Academy of Sciences.

MADISON, Wis. – Public Health Madison and Dane County, in partnership with the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene, is offering free and expanded private well water testing services for residents impacted by flooding.
According to a release, if you own a private well and live in a flooded area of Dane County, your water might be in danger of contamination from pollutants carried in floodwaters.
Free kits are available for pickup in Cross Plains, Mazomanie, Black Earth, Town of Middleton and Town of Montrose.
Doing this testing is crucial for making sure that your water is safe since drinking water contaminated with bacteria can cause illness,” said Doug Voegeli, environmental health director for PHMDC.
PHMDC recommends well owners to stop drinking well water and using it for cooking unless it has been boiled for a minute.
The well and plumbing system should be disinfected by a procedure done by a licensed well driller or pump installer.
Before using well after disinfection, water should be tested for bacteria.
If you’re unsure if your well has been impacted, PHMDC said well owners should be impacted.
Free water testing sample kits will be available until Sept. 6 at the following locations: State Bank of Cross Plains 1205 Main St, Cross Plains 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday Middleton Town Hall 7555 Old Sauk Rd, Verona 8:00 am – 4:00 pm, Monday through Thursday 8:00 am – 12:00pm, Friday Black Earth Village Office 1210 Mills St, Black Earth 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday Mazomanie Village Hall 133 Crescent St, Mazomanie 7:30 am -4:00 pm, Monday through Wednesday 7:30 am – 7:00 pm, Thursday 7:30 am – 4:00 pm, Friday Montrose Town Hall 1341 Diane Ave, Belleville 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, Monday through Thursday Madison – Public Health Madison & Dane County Laboratory 8:00 am – 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd., Room 516B, Madison Madison – Public Health Madison & Dane County Environmental Health Office 7:45 am – 4:15 pm, Monday through Friday 2300 S. Park St., Suite 2022, Madison 76 Photos Kenzie Rundle

BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) — Chinese lawmakers on Monday began reviewing a draft law on soil pollution prevention and control, as the country has escalated its fight against pollution.
The draft law was submitted to the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) for the third reading at a session that runs from Monday to Friday.
There will be national standards for soil pollution risk control, and a nationwide soil condition census should be conducted at least once every ten years, according to the draft.
A network of monitoring stations are required to be established nationwide with data and other information collected shared among environmental, agricultural, natural resources, housing, water resources, health, and forestry and grassland authorities, it said.
Environmental and health authorities of the State Council are required to conduct screening and evaluation of toxic and harmful substances in the soil and make public a list of them.
The draft law on prevention and control of soil pollution was submitted to the top legislature for its first reading in June.
China is escalating its fight against pollution.
The top legislature revised the law on air pollution in 2015 and the law on water pollution in 2017, restricting various sources of pollution and making environmental data more transparent.
Currently, there is no dedicated law on soil pollution, just a handful of provisions scattered across other laws.
The draft law under deliberation is expected to address this legal void.

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Sizing also removes or smoothens the projecting microfibres that might interfere with the weaving process.
Traditionally, starch mixed in water is used for the sizing process, and this requires plenty of water.
The researchers used liquid carbon dioxide as solvent and tested three agents that easily dissolve in carbon dioxide for sizing both cotton and polyester yarn.
Suitable agent “Of the three agents tested, we found sucrose octaacetate produced the best results,” says Dr. Raveendran.
But no drying is needed when liquid carbon dioxide is used as it is an inherently dry process.
Once the weaving is completed, the sizing agent has to be completely removed from the yarn as it might resist dyes and chemicals commonly used in textile processing.
In the conventional desizing process, large volume of water is used for desizing or washing the fabric to remove the sizing agent from the yarn, which generates lots of waste water.
Instead of water, the researchers used supercritical carbon dioxide for desizing.
As in the case of sizing, the yarn (in the fabric) becomes dry almost instantaneously when the pressure of carbon dioxide is reduced to gas phase pressure after desizing.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials didn’t notify hundreds of Wichita-area residents about contaminated drinking water in two neighborhoods for years.
The state discovered dry cleaning chemicals had contaminated groundwater at a Haysville laundromat in 2011 while investigating a possible Kwik Shop expansion.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment didn’t act on the contamination for more than six years, the Wichita Eagle reported.
The state didn’t test nearby private wells or notify residents so that they could test for contamination at their drinking wells.
"Instead, they all kept quiet.
The state also waited more than four years to notify more than 200 homes that officials discovered contamination near a Wichita dry cleaning site.
"Everyone up and down the street has had something or (the) other."
Republican Sen. Dan Kerschen said he wants the Health Department to receive more funding designated for cleaning up contaminated sites, instead of just implementing emergency actions such as providing bottled water and hooking residents up to city water.
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A drinking water advisory was issued on July 26 after toxic per- and polyfluorinated substances were found entering the Parchment water supply at levels 20 times greater than a state and federal health standard.
Levels of the toxic compounds are still present in homes connected to the water system, which includes residences in Parchment and Cooper Township.
Tests for PFOS and PFOA, two compounds among a larger collection of PFAS substances linked to various health risks in adults and children, found levels below the EPA lifetime health advisory of 70 parts per trillion.
Rounds of testing began after contaminated Parchment water was flushed and Kalamazoo started supplying water.
Results from Aug. 15 samples showed 24-33 ppt of total PFAS.
Thursday, MDEQ released results from 50 tests taken to find per- and polyfluorinated compounds, known collectively as PFAS, lingering after the Parchment water system was flushed of highly contaminated water.
So far, Parchment is the only municipal supply where levels greater than 70 ppt were found.
Two Kalamazoo baseload stations feeding Parchment’s water system found total PFAS between 9-19 ppt.
Eight single-family homes were tested for lead and copper on three occasions.
An additional 12 homes were included in Parchment’s lead and copper program, but homeowners could not be reached.

According to The Wichita Eagle, state officials in Kansas waited years before notifying residents that water contamination may have affected their private drinking wells.
Although the Kansas Department of Health and Environment uncovered evidence that a dry cleaning chemical known as perchloroethylene, or PCE, had contaminated groundwater in Haysville in 2011, the agency failed to act or alert residents for more than six years, according to a report in The Wichita Eagle.
The state’s Department of Health and Environment told The Wichita Eagle that it had initially assumed the contaminated groundwater was moving away from nearby residents’ private drinking wells, and so they classified the issue as a low priority.
State officials have been clear in emphasizing that the public water supply for the city of Haysville has not been affected, meaning residents who are connected to city water are not at risk for having consumed or bathed in water contaminated with PCE.
It was unclear to Bustle if some residents remained dependent on potentially contaminated private wells.
The Haysville groundwater contamination is reportedly not the first time state officials have been slow in alerting residents of contamination.
In 2009, The Kansas Department of Health and Environment found evidence of a PCE contamination in Wichita, The Wichita Eagle reported.
According to The Wichita Eagle, the law directs the Kansas Department of Health and Environment not to specifically look for contaminations related to dry cleaning chemicals and to instead, make every "reasonable effort" to keep contamination sites within the state off the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund list.
But Kansas Department of Health and Environment Director of Environment Leo Henning told The Wichita Eagle that the agency has established priorities.
"There’s never going to be enough money to do everything at once, so we have to prioritize," the paper reported Henning said.

From the Wichita Eagle: In 2011, while investigating the possible expansion of a Kwik Shop, the state discovered dry cleaning chemicals had contaminated groundwater at 412 W. Grand in Haysville.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment didn’t act for more than six years.
“We didn’t find out for 7 years,” said Joe Hufman, whose well was contaminated by a Haysville dry cleaner.
KDHE knew it.
The Kansas Drycleaner Environmental Response Act was passed at the request of the dry cleaning industry to protect the small businesses from the potentially crippling cost of federal involvement.
The Environmental Protection Agency, through its Superfund program, can pay to clean up water pollution and then bill any and all companies ever associated with the property to recover its money.
To raise money to investigate and clean up pollution, the state passed a tax on dry cleaning chemicals.
The Kansas legislature passed a law called The Kansas Drycleaner Environmental Response Act that specifically forbade local and state environmental from looking for contamination from…wait for it…dry cleaners!
It wasn’t until 2017 that KDHE realized groundwater was actually flowing to the southeast: directly along the creek and directly toward a cluster of private drinking wells.
The Hufmans’ well had 49 parts per billion of PCE in it, nearly 10 times the allowed level.