[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Firefighting foam may have contaminated groundwater near Fairchild [AFB, WA]"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Firefighting foam may have contaminated groundwater near Fairchild, officials say


By Chad Sokol 
Spokane Spokesman-Review (WA)
April 3, 2017

Fairchild Air Force Base says groundwater that supplies nearby homes may have been contaminated by a fire-extinguishing foam that the Air Force stopped using last year after a recommendation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Air Force officials said Monday that the foam had been used at a former firefighter training site on the eastern edge of the base since 1970. It contained fluorinated compounds known by the acronyms PFOS and PFOA, which have been used to make clothing, carpet, upholstery, cookware and paper food packaging.

Testing in February found contamination in five wells near the training site, officials said. Those wells are on base and don’t supply drinking water.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/apr/03/firefighting-foam-may-have-contaminated-groundwate/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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