Castle Rock this week became the latest Colorado community to hire legal counsel to pursue claims against the manufacturers of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — toxic and pervas…
CASTLE ROCK — They stand at least 30 feet tall and 10 feet across, eight giant baby blue tanks filled with what is this fast-growing town’s best defense against a glut of industrial cancer-causing chemicals that have been accumulating and percolating for half a century.
And expensive — which is why Castle Rock’s town council on Tuesday chose to retain the services of a Seattle-based law firm that specializes in environmental litigation to go after the chemicals’ manufacturers, including the 3M Company, BASF Corp., Carrier Global Corp., DuPont de Nemours Inc., and The Chemours Company.
Martin Kimmes, water treatment and quality manager with Thornton, said the city may be on the hook for anywhere from $30 million to $80 million to buy and install GAC filters to serve its 160,000 customers. He anticipates having to spend another half a million dollars on equipment to detect the chemicals.A study published this month in
Exposure to this class of chemicals can damage the liver, increase blood pressure in pregnant women, lead to developmental impacts or delays in babies and young children, increase the risk of kidney and testicular cancers, and reduce the ability of the body’s immune system to fight infections,For cities, counties and water districts in Colorado, the presence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl compounds in water can largely be pinned on aqueous film-forming foam, or AFFF, an extinguishing...
And that’s not all. Marlowe said the cost to analyze each sample taken by the town is $444, and about 75 water samples are required a year. That’s a total of about $33,000 a year to detect PFAS in Castle Rock’s water.
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