[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Filtration plan operating at former Pease Air Force Base (NH)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force plant removes PFAS from Pease water

By Elizabeth Dinan
Seacoast Online (NH)
July 23, 2019 
 
 
PORTSMOUTH -- Air Force officials were joined by local activists, Mayor Jack Blalock and environmental professionals Tuesday to cut the ribbon for a groundwater filtration plant they say will remove contaminants which may result in adverse health effects at Pease International Tradeport.

The contaminants, perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), have been linked to firefighting foam used when the tradeport was an active Air Force base, before its 1991 closure.

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Stephen TerMaath, chief of the Air Force BRAC Program Management Division, told the Portsmouth Herald Tuesday that final adjustments are being made to the filtration system, which should be operating at 100% within a few weeks. He said the system pumps groundwater, filters it through 6,000 pounds of carbon and a granular “resin,” then returns it cleaned to the ground.

Contaminants filtered by the carbon and resin will be incinerated, as was all of the legacy firefighting foam the Air Force had with PFOS and PFOA around the country, he said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190723/air-force-plant-removes-pfas-from-pease-water

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