[CPEO-MEF] PFCs, REUSE: "The Navy aggressively looking into water contamination at Brunswick Landing" (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Navy aggressively looking into water contamination at Brunswick Landing


By Steve Levesque
Bangor Daily News (ME)
September 27, 2015

As you may have seen on the news or read about in the newspaper recently, concerns have been raised about the possibility that groundwater at Brunswick Landing is contaminated with perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs. In an attempt to clarify and shed more light on the issue, I want to share everything we know about PFCs at Brunswick Landing.

PFCs are found in many common household products. PFCs have been used since the 1950s in products such as nonstick cookware, food packaging, waterproof clothing, fabric stain protectors, lubricants and paints. PFCs also have been used in aqueous firefighting foam, or AFFF. AFFF has historically been used nationwide for firefighting at airports (both military and civilian), including the former Brunswick Naval Air Station (NAS).

PFCs are now an emerging contaminant of concern for EPA nationwide, and the agency is studying these chemicals due to concerns for the potential widespread exposure to humans, their persistence in the environment, their observed toxicity in animals and the lack of information to properly assess human health risk associated with these chemicals.

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For the entire column, see
http://bangordailynews.com/2015/09/27/opinion/contributors/the-navy-is-aggressively-looking-into-water-contamination-at-brunswick-landing/?ref=OpinionBox

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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