A decades-long issue on Salt Lake City’s east side continues to spark health concerns due to toxic groundwater pollutants.

The VA Salt Lake City Health Care System held a community advisory group meeting on Thursday evening to explain risk factors and ongoing efforts to clean toxins spreading from a plume contaminated with tetrachloroethylene, or PCE . A feasibility study is underway to determine the most effective way to clean up the problem.

The affected groundwater is part of the 700 South/1600 East PCE superfund site , and the Environmental Protection Agency says impacts of the contamination span approximately 300 acres on the east side of the city. This includes, but is not limited to, areas west of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ medical complex to East High School.

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