Drinking Water Safety

Aerial view looking northwest of the City of Dayton Water Treatment and Distribution plant. TY GREENLEES / STAFF

Why Dayton says it had to file $300M lawsuit against Wright-Patt over water contamination

The Dayton Fire Training Center on MacFadden Avenue, near the city's Mad River Wellfield. TY GREENLEES / STAFF

Is the Dayton Fire Training Center contaminating the city’s drinking water wells?

Butler County firefighters seen in a Aug. 9, 2011 photograph after using firefighting foam to extinguish a tar fire. NICK GRAHAM / STAFF

Bill outlawing use of firefighting foam with ‘forever chemicals’ clears House

Ohio Statehouse

Bill would limit Ohio firefighters’ use of foam containing ‘forever chemicals’

What are PFAS chemicals?

Dayton customers now have access to how much ‘forever chemicals’ are in their drinking...

Dayton files $300 million drinking water contamination lawsuit against Wright-Patt

‘Forever chemicals’ detected in at least a dozen private wells in Montgomery County

Dayton Daily News Community Conversation: How are we protecting our water for the future?

Lane Osswald farms 1500 acres in Preble County north of Eaton. He doesn't till the land instead he used cover crops which holds the soil on the land. "When our kids farm in the future, there will be good quality soil left to do that in."

How healthy are our local waterways and what’s being done to protect them?

Dan Casey, left, lead field operations engineer, and Brad Geisman, pilot engineer for Emerging Compounds Treatment Technologies (ECT2), discuss a water filtration system being used to remediate PFAS from contaminated groundwater at the fire training area of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on Sept. 29, 2020. U.S. Air Force personnel from the 88th Air Base Wing Civil Engineer Group are leading the pilot study of new remediation techniques that can remove and destroy the PFAS, some of which were formerly used in aircraft fire fighting foam./CONTRIBUTED

Wright-Patt disputes city’s claim that it’s threatening community’s drinking water

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