[CPEO-MEF] WATER: PFOA and PFOS at former Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. Navy holds open house for groundwater contamination questions
By Mark D. Marotta

21st Century Media News Service/Montgomery News (PA)
October 8, 2014

Informational displays about groundwater contamination in the area of  
the former Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove adorned  
the main room of the Horsham Township Community Center at an open  
house meeting held by the U.S. Navy on Oct. 7.

Members of the public crowded around representatives from the Navy  
and other agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and  
Horsham Water and Sewer Authority, who were on hand to field  
questions about environmental issues at the former base, which was  
formally disestablished in 2011.

According to one of the exhibits at the open house, the facility had  
been identified as having groundwater contamination as early as 1995.  
In the years since the base’s closure, the Navy had continued to  
investigate and clean up the site. While work had been completed at  
several locations on the former base, the investigation of a number  
of other portions of the property, including an area used for fire  
training, have continued.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2014/10/08/ 
public_spirit_willow_grove_guide/news/doc543568095f133691670077.txt


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Lenny Siegel
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