[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: Firefighting foam at New Castle Airport and Dover Air Force Base (DE)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

In Delaware, C8 contamination blamed on firefighting foam

by Jeff Murdock
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
April 1, 2016

Delaware has some of the nation's highest concentrations of the toxic chemical C8 in its water supplies, in some cases exceeding levels found near Parkersburg, West Virginia.

But DuPont isn't the likely culprit here.

Environmental studies and experts, including Delaware's Division of Waste and Hazardous Substances, Artesian Water and New Castle County officials, almost unanimously say the cause of the contamination is fire firefighting materials used at two air bases.

"We've tied it back to the firefighting foam," said Tim Ratsep, of Delaware's Division of Waste and Hazardous Substances. "Everything we have found so far does not indicate a release from any DuPont operations."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/2016/04/01/delaware-c8-contamination-blamed-firefighting-foam/81538418/

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