[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Mashpee [MA] well taken offline"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mashpee well taken offline

By Chris Lindahl 
Cape Cod Times (MA)
March 17, 2017

MASHPEE - One of seven wells used for the town's public drinking water supply will remain shut down indefinitely after it recently tested positive for potentially cancer-causing chemicals, likely caused by past activity at Joint Base Cape Cod.

The Mashpee Water District's wells were voluntarily tested by officials from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center last week, as part of ongoing chemical remediation efforts at and around the Upper Cape base. One well, near Mashpee Village, tested high for perfluorinated chemicals known as PFOS and PFOA — 0.072 parts per billion, just a hair above the federal advisory level of 0.07 ppb. The other wells did not have high readings for those chemicals, which are used for fire suppression, according to Andrew G. Marks, water operations manager for the district.

Despite a follow-up test this week that showed the concentration of chemicals had fallen below the federal threshold, water officials have decided to proceed with caution.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20170317/mashpee-well-taken-offline

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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