2015 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:39:46 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Brunswick Landing [ME] water contamination remedies in dispute"
 
Brunswick Landing water contamination remedies in dispute

By Walter Wuthmann 
Forecaster (ME)
September 24, 2015

BRUNSWICK - Members of the citizens group supporting base-wide groundwater controls to combat chemical contamination at the former naval base are disappointed with the response to their proposed remedy.

Officials tasked with cleaning up the Brunswick Naval Air Station, though, say they are actively monitoring the presence of perflourinated chemicals, or PFCs, and are even testing groundwater they are not mandated to by law.

Speaking after the Sept. 17 meeting of the BNAS restoration advisory board, Carol Warren, a member of Brunswick Area Citizens for a Safe Environment, said “I sensed a lot of resistance from the town and the Navy.”

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.theforecaster.net/brunswick-landing-water-contamination-remedies-in-dispute/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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