[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Guard's Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Los Alamitos Base Latest PFAS Contaminated Site in OC 

By Anthony Pignataro 
OC Weekly (CA)
October 21, 2019 

Add “forever chemicals” to the list of things you need to worry about.

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PFAS have been in the news a lot lately, most recently this Los Alamitos-Seal Beach Patch story [7] on how the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos just made a list of 90 military bases nationwide to have significant PFAS contamination (mostly from firefighting foam). Okay, it didn’t just make the list–according to this Military Times story from last month [8], it nearly came out on top.

“The no. 2 and 3 most-contaminated installations are the Guard’s Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, California, and Belmont Armory, Michigan,” states the Military Times story.

As for the U.S. Army, it insists that it has the contamination at the Los Alamitos base under control. Or at least, it’s keeping soldiers from drinking contaminated water.

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For the entire article, see
https://ocweekly.com/los-alamitos-base-latest-pfas-contaminated-site-in-oc/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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