[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Oregon State University to study Wurtsmith Air Force Base (MI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

OSU chemists to study contaminants at military bases

KTVZ TV 21 News (OR)
February 15, 2018 

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Environmental chemists at Oregon State University will lead grants totaling $2.9 million to conduct studies of chemicals that have contaminated military installations and are also detected at fire training areas in the United States, including Oregon.

Jennifer Field will lead a $1.5 million project to characterize and control per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, of PFASs, which are common contaminants at sites where aqueous film-forming foam was used to extinguish fires for half a century.

Staci Simonich will lead a $1.4 million project to study and develop the removal of several classes of chemicals at these sites, including PFASs, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs; and polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.ktvz.com/news/osu-chemists-to-study-contaminants-at-military-bases/702167135

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