Study traces PFAS in South Platte River to Suncor refinery.
A recent study commissioned by
“Suncor has this very large plume of contaminated groundwater that underlies the facility, and that groundwater is full of PFAS,” Miller says. “Suncor pumps that groundwater, treats it and then discharges it into Sand Creek, but even after they've treated their groundwater, there's still a lot of PFAS in the water that they're discharging into Sand Creek.”According to the study, several drinking-water intake wells along the South Platte downstream of Suncor could be taking in PFAS.
Through spokesperson Mita Adesanya, Suncor issued a statement saying that it is reviewing the study and will respond during the Colorado Department of Health and Environment’s“As explained in our comments submitted to the Division, Suncor is not causing surface water concentrations to exceed the EPA’s Drinking Water Health Advisory for PFOA/PFOS of 70 parts per trillion in Sand Creek, which is also not classified for drinking water use,” the statement says.
Suncor isn’t the only company that discharges PFAS in Colorado; state representatives Lisa Cutter and Mary Bradfield are currently co-sponsoringCutter says that she’s interested in all things related to the environment and health, so when an eleven-year-old constituent asked if she’d heard about the problems with PFAS, she knew it was time to take action.
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