[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Selfridge air base [MI] is pouring PFAS into Lake St. Clair"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Selfridge air base is pouring PFAS into Lake St. Clair

By Garret Ellisongellison
MLivew (MI)
July 24, 2018

MOUNT CLEMENS, MI -- Test results show contamination has been pouring out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base into the Clinton River and Lake St. Clair, which is the source of drinking water for nearby municipalities reporting detections of harmful chemicals.

Five storm-water drainage outfalls around the Macomb County air base tested positive in February for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, contamination, according to Michigan Department of Environmental Quality sampling data obtained by MLive through the Freedom of Information Act.

The sum total of six PFAS compounds in the drainage entering the Clinton River near the intersection of Irwin Drive and North River Road tested for 5,009 parts-per-trillion (ppt). Total PFAS in another outfall downstream near Bridgeview Street tested at 4,771-ppt.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/selfridge_pfas_afff_lake_st_cl.html

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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>
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