Cannon PFAS destroyed longtime Clovis farmer’s dairy
Source: https://www.abqjournal.com/, May 28, 2022
By: Theresa Davis
Art Schaap remembers the day in 2018 when people from Cannon Air Force Base knocked on his front door and asked to test his water. The Clovis dairy farmer had seen airmen use firefighting foam during training exercises. But he soon learned that toxic chemicals from that foam had leaked off-base into the groundwater beneath his land. “That’s when the nightmare began,” he said.
In the years since, Schaap found himself unable to sell the cows’ contaminated milk or meat. Read more.