{"id":14769,"date":"2023-02-14T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T18:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/?p=14769"},"modified":"2023-12-13T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:09:06","slug":"alaska-community-water-quality-report-pfas-contamination-of-municipality-of-anchorage-and-fairbanks-north-star-borough-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/publications\/pfas\/alaska-community-water-quality-report-pfas-contamination-of-municipality-of-anchorage-and-fairbanks-north-star-borough-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Community Water Quality Report: PFAS Contamination of Municipality of Anchorage and Fairbanks North Star Borough Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) conducted independent water quality testing in 2022 that showed PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) contamination in Anchorage lakes as well as in Ship Creek. These results show contamination in lakes used for swimming and fishing. The results also show contamination in Ship Creek downstream from Joint Base Elmendorf and Fort Richardson (JBER), an important urban ecosystem for fish, wildlife, as well as fishing. The samples from 2021 and 2022 revealed the presence of toxic PFAS chemicals in all the water bodies we tested in both Anchorage and the Fairbanks North Star Borough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) conducted independent water quality testing in 2022 that showed PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) contamination in Anchorage lakes as well as in Ship Creek. These results show contamination in lakes used for swimming and fishing. The results also show contamination in Ship Creek downstream from Joint Base Elmendorf and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,227,215,230],"tags":[285,153,287,266,286,162],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14769"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14778,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions\/14778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaction.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}