[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Fairbanks [AK] officials to investigate ground water contamination at fire training center"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Note: This is not a military site, but the same problems with fire-fighting foam are being found at military bases across the country. - LS]

Fairbanks officials to investigate ground water contamination at fire training center


by Cameron Mackintosh
KTUU TV-2 News (Anchorage, AK)
February 9, 2016 

Fairbanks officials are investigating a possible chemical contamination of private water wells near the city’s Regional Fire Training Center, according to a press release issued Tuesday.

Officials were notified recently that concentrations of “perfluorinated compounds” had been found in the groundwater at the fire training center, city officials say. The concentrations were higher than advisory levels set by the EPA.

Perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, were present in an aqueous foam agent used by firefighters to extinguish fires until 2004. The foam was also used to put out petroleum fires during training exercises at the center, city officials say.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, scientists are unsure about the health effects associated with exposure to PFCs but the compounds can build up and remain in the human body for long periods of time.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.ktuu.com/news/news/fairbanks-officials-to-investigate-ground-water-contamination-at-fire-training-center/37910468

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