These compounds have been found in water sources all over the country, including elsewhere in the Tucson Metro Region.
For example, the EPA’s health advisory level for 1, 4 Dioxane is 0.35 parts per billion, but Alaska set their standard at 77 parts per billion and New Hampshire’s is 0.25.
As far as a funding source, he suggested that an additional sales tax might be an option.
Marana and other local jurisdictions, along with the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, are continuing to investigate whether the contaminants came from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base or another source, but so far no definitive source has been identified.
The contamination levels in a number of the wells have dropped since the town began testing the water in late 2016, though a few have slightly increased.
Marana Water looked at other options besides treating the water, but advised against them.
One of those options is “water blending,” which happens when a contaminated system is connected with a clean system.
The Northwest Recharge, Recover, and Delivery System is another project in the works, to be constructed in 2023.
Kmiec said because of these challenges, this option “quickly fell off the radar.” Town Manager Jamsheed Mehta said the town staff will put together a proposal on how and when to build the treatment centers, which should be ready to present to council sometime in late-September to early-October.
Mayor Ed Honea said the council wants to see the treatment facilities happen as quickly as possible.

Adobe Stock Hundreds of residents in two neighborhoods near Wichita, Kansas, drank contaminated water for years without knowing it.
SALT LAKE CITY — Hundreds of residents in two neighborhoods near Wichita, Kansas, drank contaminated water for years without knowing it, according to The Wichita Eagle.
The Eagle’s investigative report found that Kansas officials allowed the drinking of contaminated water to go on for years “despite warning signs of contamination close to water wells used for drinking, washing and bathing.” The state first discovered dry cleaning materials had contaminated groundwater while they investigated a possible expansion of a Kiwk Shop back in 2011.
The Kansas Department of Health didn’t act for six years, even though it knew about the water.
According to the Eagle’s report, the state “didn’t test private wells less than a mile away.
Nor did it notify residents that their drinking wells could be contaminated with dry cleaning chemicals, known as perchloroethylene, so they could test the water themselves.” And, even worse, some fear that the contamination could happen at 22 other sites where the state hasn’t checked yet.
Read the entire piece at Kansas.com.
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Hundreds of residents in two neighborhoods near Wichita, Kansas, drank contaminated water for years without knowing it, according to The Wichita Eagle.
The Eagle’s investigative report found that Kansas officials allowed the drinking of contaminated water to go on for years “despite warning signs of contamination close to water wells used for drinking, washing and bathing.” The state first discovered dry cleaning materials had contaminated groundwater while they investigated a possible expansion of a Kiwk Shop back in 2011.
The Kansas Department of Health didn’t act for six years, even though it knew about the water.
According to the Eagle’s report, the state “didn’t test private wells less than a mile away.
Nor did it notify residents that their drinking wells could be contaminated with dry cleaning chemicals, known as perchloroethylene, so they could test the water themselves.” And, even worse, some fear that the contamination could happen at 22 other sites where the state hasn’t checked yet.

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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.

Marana residents who live in the affected residential areas have been asking the Council to treat the tap water ever since news broke last month of two types of contaminants exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency’s health advisory levels.
These compounds have been found in water sources all over the country, including elsewhere in the Tucson Metro Region.
For example, the EPA’s health advisory level for 1, 4 Dioxane is 0.35 parts per billion, but Alaska set their standard at 77 parts per billion and New Hampshire’s is 0.25.
As far as a funding source, he suggested that an additional sales tax might be an option.
The contamination levels in a number of the wells has dropped since the town began testing the water in late 2016, though a few have slightly increased.
Marana Water looked at other options besides treating the water, but advised against them.
One of those options is “water blending,” which happens when a contaminated system is connected with a clean system.
The Northwest Recharge, Recover, and Delivery System is another project in the works, to be constructed in 2023.
Kmiec said because of these challenges, this option “quickly fell off the radar.” Town Manager Jamsheed Mehta said the town staff will put together a proposal on how and when to build the treatment centers, which should be ready to present to council sometime in late-September to early-October.
Mayor Ed Honea said the council wants to see the treatment facilities happen as quickly as possible.

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One of the measures aims to stop water contamination at military bases.
A fire-fighting foam used on military bases has literally poisoned the well.
The foam contains chemicals which have been linked to cancer and other health issues.
He adds, "We’re now seeing more and more incidents where this is getting into drinking water, contaminating it and people are suffering as a result of that."
Peters worked to include a provision in the 2019 defense bill, that encourages the Defense Department to use firefighting foams without the chemicals, known as PFAS.
He says, "We can never take safe drinking water for granted.
Earlier this year, the Department of Defense told us it was working to address the problem, and make sure military bases and surrounding areas had access to safe drinking water.
Lynn Thorp with the Clean Water Action says, "Any further information we can get about health effects is very, very important to be able to make sound decisions about these chemicals."
The EPA says it’s examining PFAS in drinking water and is working on cleanup recommendations for the contaminated sites.

Like Local 3 News on Facebook: President Trump signed the 2019 Military Policy Bill into law.
One of the measures aims to stop water contamination at military bases.
A fire-fighting foam used on military bases has literally poisoned the well.
The foam contains chemicals which have been linked to cancer and other health issues.
He adds, "We’re now seeing more and more incidents where this is getting into drinking water, contaminating it and people are suffering as a result of that."
Peters worked to include a provision in the 2019 defense bill, that encourages the Defense Department to use firefighting foams without the chemicals, known as PFAS.
He says, "We can never take safe drinking water for granted.
Earlier this year, the Department of Defense told us it was working to address the problem, and make sure military bases and surrounding areas had access to safe drinking water.
Lynn Thorp with the Clean Water Action says, "Any further information we can get about health effects is very, very important to be able to make sound decisions about these chemicals."
The EPA says it’s examining PFAS in drinking water and is working on cleanup recommendations for the contaminated sites.

Safe and readily available water is important for public health, whether it is used for drinking, domestic use, food production or recreational purposes.
“Ninety per cent of households in Nigeria consume contaminated water and other impure substances,” according to a report by the multiple indicator cluster.
Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), in low and middle-income countries, 38 per cent of health care facilities lack an improved water source, 19 per cent do not have improved sanitation, and 35 per cent lack water and soap for hand washing.
“globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with faeces, accounting for about 502 000 diarrhoeal deaths each year and by 2025 half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas,” says WHO.
However, contaminated water and poor sanitation are linked to transmission of diseases, some of the more commonly reported problems experienced from drinking impure water includes :cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio.
This is particularly the case in health care facilities where both patients and staff are placed at additional risk of infection and disease when water, sanitation, and hygiene services are lacking,” says WHO.
Inadequate management of urban, industrial, and agricultural wastewater means the drinking-water of hundreds of millions of people is dangerously contaminated or chemically polluted.
Diarrhoea is the most widely known disease linked to contaminated food and water but there are other hazards.
The aim of the scheme is to ensure that products protect users from the pathogens that cause diarrhoeal disease and to strengthen policy, regulatory, and monitoring mechanisms at the national level to support appropriate targeting and consistent and correct use of such products.

About 88 percent of Nebraska residents rely on groundwater to provide their drinking water.
State and national agencies impose specific regulations.
On the positive side, stronger water-purification capability and improved fertilizer practices in some parts of the state have helped reduce the number of occasions where nitrate levels are above the safe-drinking threshold, requiring local water systems to take remedial action.
In some parts of the state, the nitrate concentration in groundwater has risen to troubling levels.
The Little Blue NRD in southeast Nebraska has designated eight “water quality management areas” to address nitrate concerns.
Some examples: » In the Little Blue NRD, 75 percent of reporting ag producers are applying more nitrogen than recommended by specialists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
» In some parts of the Little Blue NRD, nitrate levels “exceed the maximum contaminant level of 10 ppm (parts per million)” considered the safe limit for drinking water.
» In the 756-square-mile area of northeast Nebraska covered by the four-NRD cooperative plan, average nitrate concentrations since 1980 “have increased, with some areas (having) three times the levels safe for drinking water,” the NRDs report.
The natural resources districts, the university, DEQ, the Nebraska Environmental Trust and federal agencies provide technical or financial help to agricultural producers to reduce nitrates and other water-quality concerns.
Conservation steps include adjusted application levels or schedules, avoidance of overwatering, use of cover crops, decommissioning of old wells, proper maintenance of septic systems and wetland restoration.

According to a recent published report, records on inspections done on water tanks on roofs of NYCHA buildings disappeared.
Many of the wooden tanks, which contained drinking water, were contaminated with dead animals, insects and other floating debris.
By law, NYCHA must document and report the condition of its water tanks to the health department.
Some inspections were even whited-out with reports about unsanitary conditions.
The trend in water tanks is so disturbing that those in the water industry say it is common to find unsanitary conditions in public housing water tanks.
The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a statement that it’s working with NYCHA to improve inspection requirements.
“They always claim to be cleaning the water in that tower,” one resident said in an interview “But they don’t seem to do a very good job.” “While our water tank cleaning and inspections are reliable, we will review the filing of our inspection forms to ensure they reflect this effort accurately,” a NYCHA representative said in a statement.
“The reports on contamination in NYCHA water tanks are appalling,” said Johnson.
Late last month, thousands of residents in Brevoort Houses had to hull water with buckets from a station after they were left without regular running water for 10 days in 900 apartments.
NYCHA workers were reported cleaning a water tank when the water couldn’t be turned back on.