[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, GLOBAL: "High level of unsafe chemicals found in well near Yokota base, " Japan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

High level of unsafe chemicals found in well near Yokota base

by Yuji Moronaga, Kei Fujiyama, and Ayako Suzuki 
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN (Japan)
January 6, 2020 


High levels of harmful organic chemicals were detected in a well in the vicinity of Yokota Air Base, and Japanese authorities suspect the contamination may be due to activity at the U.S. military facility in western Tokyo.

The Tokyo metropolitan government noted that the contamination was about 19 times the level set by a U.S. drinking water health advisory.

Officials asked the Defense Ministry to contact U.S. military authorities to ascertain the levels of such chemicals in groundwater within the air base, but as yet has received no response.

Checks for the presence of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) were conducted after Jon Mitchell, a British journalist working in Japan, filed a report in December 2018 about the leakage of firefighting foam from a storage tank at Yokota Air Base in 2012.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ202001060037.html

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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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