New technology is being tested on the Willow Grove Joint Base that is leading the way to get forever chemicals out of the water.
investigating forever chemicals, or PFAs, in the water coming from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove
It's a moment of celebration for two local women who took their fight for clean water from Warminster to the White House this year.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters. The women want to know if dangerous per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly called forever chemicals, are still in the water which the EPA confirmed more than a decade ago came from the firefighting foam on base.Now that they know the CDC is learning five of 11 cancers studied in a 12-county area in Pennsylvania, including Montgomery and Bucks, correlate with high levels of PFAs in the water near the base, their urgency to get it out of the water feels validated.
The same day, the Environmental Protection Agency announced federal safety limits for PFAs chemicals in drinking water should be no more than 20 parts per trillion."The chemicals are filterable. You can get them out through carbon filtration," U.S. Representative Madeleine Dean said.Two competing technologies are being tested at Willow Grove to see how effective they are at absorbing the chemicals out of the water.
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