[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Contamination from Joint Base Cape Cod (MA) has flowed into neighboring water supplies.

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Public can hear update on cleanup efforts at Upper Cape base
Contamination has flowed into neighboring water supplies.


By Christine Legere
Cape Cod Times (MA)
August 28, 2018 
 
 


JOINT BASE CAPE COD - Water quality experts plan to update the public Wednesday on their efforts to address potentially cancer-causing contamination that has traveled off the Upper Cape’s military base into public and private water supplies.

...

Classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as “emerging contaminants,” perfluorinated chemicals known as PFOS and PFOA are compounds found in firefighting foam used during training on the southeast corner of the base from 1970 until the mid-1980s.

With the Cape’s sandy soils and the ability of those compounds to move quickly in groundwater, evidence of their presence has turned up in neighboring towns.

A formal maximum level for perfluorinated compounds has not yet been set, but the EPA issued a “lifetime health advisory” in 2016 for amounts exceeding 70 parts per trillion.


…

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20180827/public-can-hear-update-on-cleanup-efforts-at-upper-cape-base

--

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

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org