{"id":130856,"date":"2024-05-29T07:56:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T04:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/groundwater-pollution-swedish-armed-forces-appeal-to-pfas-verdict\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T07:56:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T04:56:05","slug":"groundwater-pollution-swedish-armed-forces-appeal-to-pfas-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/groundwater-pollution-swedish-armed-forces-appeal-to-pfas-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundwater pollution: Swedish armed forces appeal to PFAS verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130856\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The Swedish Armed Forces have announced that they are appealing to the PFAS verdict at the Swedish Supreme Court. According to a judgement in April the Swedish armed forces are responsible for PFAS pollution of groundwater and must pay damages to Uppsala Water. The damages consist of compensation for the costs of PFAS treatment and legal costs. The chemicals found in the groundwater are supposed to be coming from firefighting foam. According to the Swedish Armed Forces the Land and Environmental Court of Appeal (M\u00d6D) has started from Uppsala Vatten\u2019s evidence and has not made any proper analysis of the Swedish Armed Forces\u2019 technical evidence. The Swedish Land and Environment Court of Appeals, Mark och Milj\u00f6\u00f6verdomstolen, on 9 April delivered a win for the municipal water company Uppsala Vatten in their lawsuit against Sweden\u2019s armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling in Sweden marks an important step in holding polluters responsible for their actions. Speaking about the case, P\u00e4rDalhielm, CEO of SvensktVatten, the Swedish association of water and wastewater services, said that \u201cthe outcome of this case is important both for Uppsala Water and for the rest of the water sector. Through the judgement, it is now established that it is the polluter who must pay for the treatment costs, not the municipality\u2019s residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the judgement, the Swedish Armed Forces must bear the treatment costs that have arisen to date due to the PFAS contamination, amounting to \u20ac 3.5 million. The drinking water company was awarded over 37 million Swedish Krone (SEK) in damages, which it says will help cover some of the costs to treat the water to lower PFAS levels. But PFAS chemicals are difficult to break down and could remain in Uppsala\u2019s drinking water for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waternewseurope.com\/groundwater-pollution-swedish-armed-forces-appeal-to-pfas-verdict\/\"> Water News Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/5-535\/\">Groundwater pollution: Swedish armed forces appeal to PFAS verdict<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,5744,4860,14708],"class_list":["post-130856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-groundwater","tag-pfas","tag-uppsala"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}