[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "No end in sight for PFOS, PFOA investigation at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst" (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

No end in sight for PFOS, PFOA investigation at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst

By Kristina Scala Nasuti
Burlington County Times
May 20, 2017

JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST — More than a year has passed since a military investigation into chemical pollution from firefighting foamrevealed that groundwater and soil at dozens of sites on the base were contaminated.

And there's no telling how long it will be until cleanups begin. 

Investigators are still testing off-base private wells in the area to determine how many more contain unsafe levels of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), joint base spokesman Sgt. Chris Powell said Friday. That testing was added to the military's groundwater and soil sampling efforts in December 2016 as part of the site inspection phase of the investigation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/news/horsham-pfos/no-end-in-sight-for-pfos-pfoa-investigation-at-joint/article_fb3470aa-3bf4-11e7-ad94-fbe12b25632e.html

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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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