[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Still No Cleanup of PFAS at [McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst] Base Two Years after Alarming Test Results, " NJ

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

STILL NO CLEANUP OF PFAS AT MDL BASE TWO YEARS AFTER ALARMING TEST RESULTS

by JON HURDLE 
NJ Spotlight
OCTOBER 24, 2018

Spokesman says Air Force is taking ‘comprehensive approach’ to toxic chemicals, has not begun to remediate polluted groundwater

Almost two years after the U.S. Air Force published data showing high levels of the toxic PFAS chemical family on New Jersey’s McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst military base, it has not begun to clean up the contamination despite tests showing the chemicals thousands of times higher than federal health standards in some parts of the base.

A spokesman for the joint base said the chemicals are subject to monitoring and cleanup as part of the EPA’s Superfund process under the “CERCLA” law, but that the “remedial action” part of the process has yet to begin.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/18/10/23/still-no-pfas-cleanup-at-mcguire-base-two-years-after-tests-showed-high-contamination/

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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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