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Environmental Working Group releases 
report about PFAS in drinking water

Activist organization adds 90 contaminated sites to list, including those in MI

Drinking water supplies at 
108 Army and Army National 
Guard 
installations 
are 
contaminated with per- and 
polyfluoroalkyl 
substances, 
or PFAS, according to a report 
released by the Environmental 
Working Group on Wednesday. 
Contaminated sites include 
Grand Ledge Army Aviation 
Support and Jackson Readiness 
Center in Michigan. The report 
added 90 installations to the 
existing 18 which were known 
to have contamination.
PFAS are a wide variety 
of 
chemicals 
produced 
by 
manufacturing, 
industrial 
and 
agricultural 
processes. 
In Michigan and some other 
states across the country, PFAS 
is a growing threat to drinking 

water. Ann Arbor residents 
have 
become 
increasingly 
concerned 
with 
the 
levels 
of 
PFAS 
contamination 
in 
Washtenaw County, especially 
in the Huron River. Last 
May, the city launched a 
transparency 
initiative 
to 
detail updates on water quality. 
The 
EGW’s 
data 
was 
obtained from the Department 
of Defense under the Freedom 
of Information Act. Since 2016, 
the total number of current and 
former contaminated military 
installations rose from 207 
to 297. The report detailed 
the negative effects of PFAS 
chemicals 
and 
their 
reach 
across the U.S.
“Low 
doses 
of 
PFAS 
chemicals have been linked 
to 
cancer, 
harm 
to 
the 
reproductive 
and 
immune 

systems, thyroid disease and 
other health problems,” the 
report said. 
“The chemicals have been 
detected 
in 
the 
drinking 
water of 19 million Americans 
in 49 states, and unreleased 
EPA data show that up to 110 
million people may have PFAS-
contaminated drinking water.”
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, 
D-Ann 
Arbor, 
released 
a 
statement on Wednesday in 
response to the report.
“PFAS is a serious national 
health 
problem 
and 
every 
day we find more and more 
of 
our 
nation’s 
service 
members are being exposed 
to 
PFAS,” 
she 
said. 
“The 
Environmental 
Working 
Group is doing valuable work 
to expose the extent of the 
contamination. We must be 
serious about identifying 
contamination, cleaning it 
up, and preventing further 
contaminations 
and 
dangers going forward.” 
Dingell 
said 
the 
Department 
of 
Defense 
must stay transparent and 
be held accountable in its 
role in PFAS contamination. 
She mentioned the National 
Defense Authorization Act, 
which was passed by the 
house in July. It includes 
three 
amendments 
by 
Dingell addressing PFAS. 
“The House passed a 
strong National Defense 
Authorization 
bill 
that 
included a number of my 
amendments that will help 
clean up the nearly 300 
military 
sites 
identified 
with PFAS contamination 
— including designating 
PFAS as hazardous. With 
the EWG’s new findings, 
it’s even more critical that 
PFAS provisions in NDAA 
make it into the final bill,” 
Dingell’s statement reads. 

The 
amendments 
added 
by Dingell designate PFAS 
chemicals 
as 
hazardous 
substances in order to qualify 
them for clean up under the 
EPA’s superfund program. The 
amendments also ban the use 
of PFAS materials to produce 
ready-to-eat meals, or MREs, 
consumed by servicemen and 
women in training and require 
that military bases cooperate 
with state regulation if PFAS 
contamination is detected near 
the installation. 
LSA senior Sophia Simon, an 
Ann Arbor native, emphasized 
the importance of protecting 
and preserving our natural 
resources. She believes that the 
University has a part to play 
in educating students about 
local environmental issues, as 
well as preserving sustainable 
practices. 
“I 
grew 
up 
near 
the 
Huron River and have been 
swimming in it for years, but 
PFAS contamination poses a 
big threat to the river water 
quality,” Simon said. “The 
University 
should 
invest 
in keeping our river clean, 
because it’s such a beautiful 
and important part of Ann 
Arbor.” 
LSA junior Kellee Byard, who 
is enrolled in the University’s 
Program in the Environment, 
called for urgent action against 
PFAS contamination. 
“I think this issue is vital 
for both local and regional 
administrations to act urgently 
and aggressively, because PFAS 
affects drinking water and also 
resides in the environment,” she 
said. “This is harming humans 
and organisms within nature, 
overall 
creating 
unhealthy 
ecosystems resulting in a slew 
of health risks. We must stop 
the production of contaminants 
that ultimately end up in our 
water.”

KATHERINA SOURINE
Daily Staff Reporter

