[CPEO-BIF] PFAS and TCE at San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic chemicals leaked under SLO airport for decades. Who is responsible for cleanup?

BY MACKENZIE SHUMAN 
San Lus Obispo Tribune (CA)
MAY 03, 2023

Since the 1970s, firefighters at San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport havetrained for potential airplane crashes using a specially designed fire suppressant.

Aqueous film forming foam sprayed from a fire engine can put out petroleum-fueled fires in an instant. It’s particularly good at dousing flames because it contains toxic chemicals known as per- and polyfluorinated substances, or PFAS, which have been linked to a variety of health issues.

Over the decades, those substances gradually trickled from where they were dispensed and leaked into the groundwater under dozens of nearby residents’ homes, infiltrating their water supplies.

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For the entire article, see
https://amp-sanluisobispo-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article274918591.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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