The Tucson City Council will vote next week on whether to allow veteran group Warbird National to clean up a plume of contaminated water underneath Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (DMAFB) in exchange for a new golf course.
The plume in question is contaminated with PFAs, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl. PFAs are colloquially known as “forever chemicals” due to their resistance to organic breakdown, and have been linked to various cancers and health risks in humans.
Warbird, a nonprofit that aims to combine golf, education and aviation in service to veterans’ causes, says they can fund cleanup of the plume. They would then use that treated water to grow grass on the new golf course they want to build near the base…