Among the bigger reporting challenges here: Trying to get the military to share the scope of the problem. Officials declined to say how many people had been drinking water contaminated by the DoD.https://nyti.ms/2GENqEb
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I asked Maureen Sullivan, a top DoD official, for an estimate. "I really couldn't hazard a guess," she said. "That's not traditionally how we track. We're tracking water sources," she went on, "not people."
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It was also challenging to figure out which water systems had been contaminated.
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The DoD's full list of PFAS-polluted water systems is here, in this 60+ page report given to Congress in March. https://partner-mco-archive.s3.amazonaws.com/client_files/1524589484.pdf …
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It's written in science-military speak, so I'll try to break it down.
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In a summary (page 18) the military concluded that it had contaminated 36 drinking water systems at bases in the U.S. and beyond. This is the number that was widely reported upon the release of the report.
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In its summary count of affected water systems, the DoD declined to include water systems that serve civilians.
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The report actually shows that the military contaminated at least 55 drinking water systems.
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