[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Report details PFAS contamination near Pittsburgh [PA} airport that ‘likely’ extends beyond military base boundaries"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report details PFAS contamination near Pittsburgh airport that ‘likely’ extends beyond military base boundaries

by Oliver Morrison
Environmental Health News
May 31, 2019

"The issue is that the chemicals will still very likely be in the groundwater 100 years from now unless someone cleans them up."

Editor's note: This story is part of an ongoing collaboration between PublicSource and Environmental Health News on PFAS contamination in Pennsylvania and was funded in part through the Bridge Pittsburgh Media Partnership.

Sarah Chromack has lived in her house just south of the Pittsburgh International Airport since the 1960s.

She's been drinking water out of a private well in her basement the entire time.

According to a recent report from the U.S. National Guard, toxic firefighting foam has, over time, contaminated the surface and groundwater at two military bases at the southeast end of the airport, fewer than 1.5 miles from Chromack's home.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.ehn.org/pfas-at-pittsburgh-military-base-2638306303.html?rebelltitem=7

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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