[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Grissom [IN] officials: Well tests show no chemical pollution"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Grissom officials: Well tests show no chemical pollution

Associated Press 
September 17, 2015, 

PERU, Ind. (AP) — Test results on drinking water wells near northern Indiana’s Grissom Air Reserve Base show no signs of pollution from a fire-suppressing foam once used at the base for training, military officials say.

Samples taken from four wells and the in-flow and out-flow points at the nearby city of Peru’s municipal water treatment plant all had levels far below the federal government’s health advisory limits for perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, said Jeff Woodring, 434th Base Civil Engineer chief environmental engineer.

That chemical is found in fire-suppressing foam used by firefighters since the 1970s.

“Some results were so low they were below the calculation testing limits and had to be estimated,” Woodring said in a statement released Wednesday.

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For the entire article, see
http://wishtv.com/2015/09/17/grissom-officials-well-tests-show-no-chemical-pollution/

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