[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: The legacy of firefighting foam use at Grayling Army Airfield (MI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

More Testing Will Occur To Detect Contaminated Water

BY DAN SANDERSON 
Crawford County Avalanche (MI)
June 12, 2018

Solutions to tackle tainted drinking water in the Grayling area won’t be determined until 2019, and could be used as a template by other communities located near military bases in the nation.
Before those measures can be identified, more monitoring wells will be drilled and more data will be collected to determine the extent of the tainted ground water in the area.

Dozens of people attended a town hall meeting held in the Joseph H. Stripe Auditorium at the Grayling High School on Tuesday, June 5, to listen to a panel of local, state, and federal officials give an update on studies linked to tainted residential water wells near Grayling. It was the fifth town hall meeting held over the last year to inform residents about the contamination and steps being taken to protect public health.

In 2016, the National Guard Bureau issued a directive to identify water sources at every training facility, camp, fort, and armory. The order also included every installation which had an airfield where fire crash training occurred, or where fires occurred with the use of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF). 

Water samples taken at the Grayling Army Airfield, where the foam was used for training purposes, tested positive for the chemicals in the fall of 2016.
Lt. Col. Adel Johnson, the toxic release program manager for the Army National Guard, said a number of sites at the Grayling Army Airfield were identified  where training with firefighting foam occurred.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.crawfordcountyavalanche.com/news/more-testing-will-occur-detect-contaminated-water

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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