[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, GLOBAL: "Marines Remove Potentially Contaminated Soil Weeks After Firefighting Foam Spill on Okinawa" (Japan)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Marines Remove Potentially Contaminated Soil Weeks After Firefighting Foam Spill on Okinawa

By Matthew M. Burke and Aya Ichihashi
Stars and Stripes 
April 27, 2020

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa -- The Marines on Okinawa removed potentially contaminated soil near a Marine Corps Air Station Futenma hangar Friday following the spill of 60,000 gallons of potentially toxic firefighting foam two weeks earlier.

Engineers and Marines from Marine Corps Installations Pacific removed about 6 inches of soil from a 700-square-foot patch adjacent to an underground storage tank on the hangar's northeast side, Marine Corps Installations Pacific officials wrote on Twitter.

The excavation was designed to be deep enough to remove all "possible contaminants" following the April 10 spill, U.S. Forces Japan said in a statement Friday afternoon.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/04/27/marines-remove-potentially-contaminated-soil-weeks-after-firefighting-foam-spill-okinawa.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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