[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Proposed Groundwater Regulations Could Affect Upper Cape" (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Proposed Groundwater Regulations Could Affect Upper Cape

By RYAN SPENCER
 Enterprise/Cape News (MA)
July 5, 2019
 
The Upper Cape is home to two of Cape Cod’s five sites contaminated by chemicals in the PFAS family.

Already, millions of dollars have been spent acting on a health advisory issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2016, which warned of health risks associated with two chemicals in the PFAS family, PFOA and PFOS.

The groundwater affected by the two contamination sites—one on Joint Base Cape Cod, the other at the Otis Rotary in Bourne—may come under increased scrutiny as the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection proposes tightening regulations on PFAS contamination.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.capenews.net/regional_news/proposed-groundwater-regulations-could-affect-upper-cape/article_31256c46-fad4-5478-a8e0-cfa769c1b294.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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