[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: 90 more Army and Army National Guard sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New PFAS Detections Reported at 90 Additional Army Installations
Pentagon Data Show Widespread Drinking Water Contamination on U.S. Bases

By Alex Formuzis
Environmental Working Group
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

WASHINGTON – Drinking water supplies at an additional 90 current and former Army and Army National Guard installations nationwide are contaminated with the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, according to newly released Department of Defense data obtained by EWG under the Freedom of Information Act.

The new data show PFAS contamination detected in tests of drinking water from 2016 to this year. They raise the number of Army installations with known PFAS contamination of drinking water or groundwater from 18 to 108, and the total number of military installations with known contamination from 207 to 297.

Out of the 90 additional sites, the worst contamination was detected at the Joint Forces Training Base, in California, where the combined level of seven different PFAS chemicals was an extraordinary 790 parts per trillion, or ppt, in tests conducted in 2017. Other locations with notably high levels of total PFAS include the Sierra Army Depot, in California; Picatinny Arsenal, in New Jersey; Camp Ethan Allen, in Vermont; and Ford Drum, in New York. (See the complete list.)

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For the entire release, see
https://www.ewg.org/release/new-pfas-detections-reported-90-additional-army-installations

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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