[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Search for toxic chemicals expands at former Navy base in Brunswick" (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Search for toxic chemicals expands at former Navy base in Brunswick
Some residents in the area fear that contamination could eventually extend beyond the base, which closed in 2011. 

BY KEVIN MILLER
Portland Press-Herald (ME)
September 16, 2017

The Navy plans to expand its search on the former Brunswick Naval Air Station property for potential contamination from chemical compounds that have caused health alarms near military bases in New Hampshire and other states.

On Thursday, the board charged with overseeing environmental cleanup at the former Navy air station will discuss the results of tests on the base and in nearby private wells for the presence of perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs. Restoration Advisory Board members also are slated to discuss a Navy proposal to conduct additional rounds of basewide testing for PFCs.

Once a common component of firefighting foams as well as chemicals used in household products, PFCs now are listed as an “emerging contaminant” by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/09/16/toxin-search-expands-at-former-brunswick-base/

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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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