Re: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Unexploded ordnance from ‘50s discovered on Fort Huachuca" (AZ)

[Mindi Messmer <mmessmer@me.com>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: October 1, 2018
CONTACT: James Martin, (603) 271-3710

NHDES Notifies Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics to Install Controls on Air Emissions

CONCORD, NH - The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) announced today that it has instructed Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics (SGPP) to investigate and apply for a permit to install air pollution controls on its Merrimack facility. The notification, sent in a letter, requires SGPP to submit an application and Best Available Control Technology analysis within 6 months. This request comes as a result of two years of investigation by NHDES, and the authority provided to NHDES in a law that became effective on September 8, 2018, which authorized the Department to require controls for air emissions of certain PFAS compounds that impact soil and water.

SGPP has been working collaboratively with NHDES to perform stack tests in 2016 and 2018 to evaluate PFAS compound emissions from the facility and to evaluate the effectiveness of a pilot scale control device. The investigation concluded that the facility continues to have small emissions of PFAS compounds which could contribute to the existing groundwater exceedances of the current state Ambient Groundwater Quality Standard (AGQS) of 70 parts per trillion (ppt) for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), 70 ppt for perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and 70 ppt for PFOA and PFOS combined. 

My bill SB309 makes this happen.

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billText.aspx?sy=2018&id=1854&txtFormat=pdf&v=current

https://www.des.nh.gov/media/pr/2018/20181001-saint-gobain.htm

Mindi Messmer, PG, CG

ITRC Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) Team

Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs Committee

New Hampshire House of Representatives
State House

Concord, New Hampshire 03301 

Ph: 603-271-3334
Mobile: 603.498.8847 | email: mmessmer@me.com

On Sep 27, 2018, at 3:10 PM, Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> wrote:

Avoiding blasts from the past: Unexploded ordnance from ‘50s discovered on Fort Huachuca, will be removed

By Emily Ellis
Sierra Vista Herald Review (AZ)
September 26, 2018


FORT HUACHUCA - A surveyor working on an motor pool project at Fort Huachuca’s Electronic Proving Ground (EPG) on Monday discovered several pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXOs) from the 1950s, according to an email from the base Public Affairs Office.

The military police were notified, and EPG personnel were restricted from the area.

The ordnance disposal team at Davis-Monthan Air Force in Tucson was contacted about the devices, but declined to remove them due to their age, said the email. The Army Corps of Engineers is currently working to have a specialist remove the UXOs within the next several weeks.

In the meantime, the area behind the facilities on Irwin Street (west of Arizona Street), Arizona Street to Brainard Road, and Whitside Road is off-limits until further notice.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.myheraldreview.com/news/government/avoiding-blasts-from-the-past-unexploded-ordnance-from-s-discovered/article_a8eee60c-c179-11e8-9b50-7b4d98371319.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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