[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Tests show residents’ wells near former Brunswick air station [ME] are safe, Navy says"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tests show residents’ wells near former Brunswick air station are safe, Navy says

By Kevin Miller
Portland Press Herald (ME)
September 22, 2017

BRUNSWICK - Navy officials Thursday touted test results showing little to no contamination in private wells near the former Brunswick Naval Air Station but pledged to continue sampling for a potentially harmful chemical once used in aviation firefighting.

“Probably the most important point is nobody here has been negatively impacted: We did all of the residential well sampling and they came back clean,” said Paul Burgio, the Navy’s environmental coordinator for the Brunswick base. “Nobody is drinking contaminated water … so this is a really good story. We still have information that we are going to collect and gather.”

The Navy has been testing for the presence of perfluorinated compounds in groundwater, surface water and sediments. Once widely used in both industrial and household products, so-called PFCs have been shown to cause health problems in laboratory animals – including impacts to reproduction and development – and 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/2017/09/21/tests-show-residential-wells-near-former-brunswick-air-station-are-safe-navy-says/

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