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KSD980741862. Cherokee County. Cherokee. The Cherokee County Superfund site is the Kansas portion of the Tri-State district. Acidic waters in mine shafts throughout the site, chat piles, tailings impoundments, surface waters in the mine pits, and streams draining the site contain significant concentrations of lead, zinc, and cadmium.
Early 2018 Department of Health & Human Services's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) was about to publish its assessment of PFAS chemicals, with a focus on two specific chemicals from the PFAS class—PFOA and PFOS—that have "contaminated water supplies near military bases, chemical plants and other sites from New York ...
North Kansas City: The site was used by a series of herbicide businesses, including for manufacturing purposes, between 1948 and 1986. A 1989 inspection detected contamination from arsenic, pentachlorophenol, 2,4-D, and 2,4,5-T. Cleanup activities at the site have included building demolition and removal of contaminated soil.
A water sample is measured as part of a PFAS drinking water treatment experiment, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Center For Environmental Solutions and ...
Chemicals that could cause cancer were found in drinking water in four of the biggest cities in Kansas between 2016 to 2021, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Tap water in Kansas was tested ...
Feb. 3—SANTA FE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced two proposed rules "to ensure that certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as 'forever ...
Military bases. The water in and around at least 126 U.S. military bases has been contaminated by high levels of PFASs because of their use of firefighting foams since the 1970s, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Defense. Of these, 90 bases reported PFAS contamination that had spread to drinking water or groundwater off the base.
Groundwater treatment systems will be installed near a military base in northern Michigan to address contamination from high levels of toxic, widely used “forever chemicals,” the U.S ...