Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
CLOVIS — The New Mexico Environment Department is hosting a meeting Monday night in Clovis regarding the chemical contamination to local groundwater supplies from Cannon Air Force Base.
The meeting is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Dr. Jay Gurley Town Hall Room at Clovis Community College, 417 Schepps Blvd.
NMED will present information on testing results this month, which indicated “that PFAS were not detectable in most of the drinking water systems that were tested,” though some sites near Turquoise Estates detected “low concentrations of some PFAS,” according to a news release.
Those recent tests focused on public drinking supplies, while PFAS contamination exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency’s Lifetime Health Advisory were found at three private well sites outside the base last year.
“The extent of the contamination plume has not been completely delineated at this point, which is why we are seeking through our litigation to force the Air Force to determine this,” NMED’s public information officer Maddy Hayden said in an email this month.
The meeting is held in conjunction with the attorney general’s office and the state’s departments of health and agriculture.
Data on NMED’s testing for PFAS at sites on and around the base are compiled at:
data/
