{"id":14035,"date":"2015-11-10T23:29:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T07:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ua-fairbanks-to-abandon-wells-switch-to-water-from-utility\/"},"modified":"2015-11-10T23:29:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T07:29:52","slug":"ua-fairbanks-to-abandon-wells-switch-to-water-from-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ua-fairbanks-to-abandon-wells-switch-to-water-from-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"UA Fairbanks to abandon wells, switch to water from utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FAIRBANKS \u2014<\/strong> The University of Alaska Fairbanks will switch from drinking water pumped from its own wells to water from a utility because of high levels of byproducts.<\/p>\n<p>The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports carbon from organic material in UAF\u2019s well water combined with added chlorine created disinfection byproducts that exceed federal limits.<\/p>\n<p>Long-term exposure to the disinfection byproducts can increase cancer risk and create kidney, liver or central nervous system problems.<\/p>\n<p>University employees in the past have used a filtration system to lower byproduct levels.<\/p>\n<p>Vice Chancellor Scott Bell says the process is expensive and time consuming and the university decided to decommission its water treatment plant and switch to College Utilities.<\/p>\n<p>Water from the utility could cost up to $500,000 more annually for a decade to cover construction costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 The University of Alaska Fairbanks will switch from drinking water pumped from its own wells to water from a utility because of high levels of byproducts. The Fairbanks Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a>-Miner reports carbon from organic material in UAF\u2019s well water combined with added chlorine created disinfection byproducts that exceed federal limits. Long-term exposure to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14035"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}