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From: "Kathleen @ Villa Grace" <Kat@kathleenwilliamson.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 19:36:18 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] have you researched the new F-52? see attached link to Trump's announcement
 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-lauded-delivery-of-f-52s-to-norway-the-planes-only-exist-in-call-of-duty/ar-AAuyLN5?ocid=sf


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  1. MUNITIONS: Canadian RDX research (Lenny Siegel)
  2. PFAS: "Vienna air reserve station [OH] part of EPA testing"
     (Lenny Siegel)
  3. PFAS: "Newburgh [NY] city residents briefed on new water
     filtration system" (Lenny Siegel)

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Canadian RDX research
Date: January 11, 2018 at 2:25:39 PM MST
To: Military Environmental Forum <military@lists.cpeo.org>


Canadian Research Adds to Worry Over an Environmental Threat the Pentagon Has Downplayed for Decades
A study released late last year gives environmental experts a way to quantify how much RDX, a chemical used in military explosives, is spreading into surrounding communities.

by Abrahm Lustgarden
ProPublica
January 9, 2018



New research by Canadian scientists into the spread of a chemical commonly used in military explosives has confirmed some of the worst fears of U.S. environmental regulators tracking the threat posed by the Pentagon’s handling of its munitions in this country.

The Canadian research analyzed soil and water samples at nine sites where military explosives were detonated between 1990 and 2014, and came up with data about where and in what concentrations the explosive compound known as RDX, a possible human carcinogen, had turned up. Calling RDX “an internationally known problem,” which “has led to an international warning on possible soil, surface water, and groundwater contamination on military training sites,” the research described with actual measurements how RDX floats on the wind and seeps through soils into water supplies.

The researchers took water samples from groundwater at the explosives sites and found that in 26 out of 36 samples, the RDX that had made its way into aquifers exceeded levels considered safe. As a result, the researchers suggest that the data can be used to model RDX contamination at any site where munitions are routinely detonated, and for the first time, give environmental experts a way to quantify how much of it is spreading into surrounding communities.



For the entire article, see
https://www.propublica.org/article/canadian-research-adds-to-worry-over-an-environmental-threat-the-pentagon-has-downplayed-for-decades

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org





From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Vienna air reserve station [OH] part of EPA testing"
Date: January 11, 2018 at 2:30:37 PM MST
To: Military Environmental Forum <military@lists.cpeo.org>


Vienna air reserve station part of EPA testing
The United States Air Force is no longer using a controversial form of firefighting foam that was profiled recently across the country


By Gerry Ricciuti
WKBN TV-27 News (Youngstown, OH)
January 9, 2018

VIENNA TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKBN) – The United States Air Force is no longer using a controversial form of firefighting foam that was profiled recently across the country.

The Air Force banned the use of a foam containing potentially deadly chemicals known as PFCs last spring.

CBS News profiled the problem recently, claiming people living and working near Air Force bases had contracted cancer. At that time, the military ordered testing be done near more than 190 bases, including the Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna, to see if any local groundwater had been contaminated.



For the entire story, see
http://wkbn.com/2018/01/09/vienna-air-reserve-station-part-of-epa-testing/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org





From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Newburgh [NY] city residents briefed on new water filtration system"
Date: January 11, 2018 at 3:02:04 PM MST
To: Military Environmental Forum <military@lists.cpeo.org>


Newburgh city residents briefed on new water filtration system

MId-Hudson News (NY)
January 9, 2018

NEWBURGH – Top officials of the state departments of environmental conservation and health assured residents of the City of Newburgh Monday night that the newly installed granulated carbon filtration system will be able to handle all contaminants found in the Washington Lake reservoir.

New City Councilman Jonathan Jacobson expressed concern about the system given that the Department of Defense has yet to take action to stop the contamination coming from the Stewart Air National Guard Base.

“I think our damages at minimum should be holing up forever to the New York City aqueduct,” Jacobson said. “I think that is what it has to be because I don’t think that we can ever be satisfied.”



For the entire article, see
https://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2018/January/09/Nbrg_water-09Jan18.html

--

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>
http://www.cpeo.org




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