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Montco Residents Raise Their Concerns Over Water Quality At Information Session

WILLOW GROVE (CBS) -- More than 1 thousand people gathered at Upper Moreland High School Tuesday night for a meeting concerning water contamination surrounding three current and former military facilities in Bucks and Montgomery Counties.

Residents say they've been dealing with contaminated water issues for years, and many people like Larry Menkes from Warminster township came out to the meeting to voice their concerns.

"I have cancer. I have one of the common cancers, my wife has something. we don't know what she has yet," Menkes said.

Michele Fox from Horsham says this has been a brutal struggle for her.

"I've been drinking this water for 53 years and I have some major health conditions," Fox said. "I want to know if there is a link between the two."

Robin Greenwald with the law firm Weitz and Luxenberg suggests meetings such as this are the first step in filing lawsuits.

She said the firm conducted a preliminary investigation of the situation, but that does not include independent checks of anyone's water supply.

"People have contacted us about contaminated drinking water PFOA and PFOS," Greenwald said. "We always come and meet them and let them meet us and learn more about them and what they've been experiencing."

It's thought the contamination follows the use of PFOA and PFOS at the former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Willow Grove, the former Naval Air Warfare Center in Warminster and the Horsham Air Guard Station.

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