[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "DoD report confirms Stewart Air Base [NY] contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DoD report confirms Stewart Air Base contamination


By Leonard Sparks 
Middletown Times Herald-Record (NY)
July 12, 2018 
 
TOWN OF NEWBURGH - Weeks after criticism from Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, the Department of Defense released a draft report showing that Stewart Air National Guard Base and a stream carrying discharges from the base to the City of Newburgh’s shuttered primary water supply have significant levels of a toxic chemical associated with numerous health problems.

Results from tests of sediment, soil and water samples on and off the base undertaken after the state identified the base as the source of Newburgh’s contamination showed high levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate and related chemicals in an area around a former base landfill and at a retention basin capturing waste from hangars where accidental discharges of firefighting foam containing the chemicals were reported.

The company hired to investigate contamination at Stewart also found high levels at Recreation Pond, which collects surface water runoff from the base and discharges it into Silver Stream; and in the stream’s network, starting at the pond and leading to Washington Lake.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.recordonline.com/news/20180712/dod-report-confirms-stewart-air-base-contamination

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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