[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Clark's Marsh at former Wurtsmith Air Force Base (MI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force to take more action at PFAS-tainted marsh, but locals skeptical

By Keith Matheny
Detroit Free Press (MI)
June 21, 2020

Clark's Marsh, a natural area near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda so tainted with potentially harmful nonstick chemicals that almost every living creature tested there shows excessive levels of them, will get more attention from the U.S. Air Force.

But area residents, frustrated by years of inaction and slow results as Wurtsmith's legacy pollution has spread to affect the surrounding community, aren't celebrating yet.

"The Air Force has heard the community's concerns," Stephen TerMaath, chief of the Air Force program responsible for environmental cleanups at its former bases, said in a release June 12.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/06/21/air-force-pfas-contaminated-clarks-marsh-oscoda-wurtsmith/3214554001/

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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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