[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: St. Mary’s County, MD "Commissioners not entertained by Navy’s failure to release results of PFAS testing after five years"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy’s PFAS dog and pony show falls flat in St. Mary’s County, MD
Commissioners not entertained by Navy’s failure to release results of PFAS testing after five years.

By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
December 14, 2020


This lengthy piece examines in detail  PFAS contamination by the navy in one county in Maryland. It’s important for communities across the country to understand the psychological campaign being waged by the Department of Defense to evade liability associated with its continued use of PFAS chemicals.

On December 8, 2020 David Steckler, the Remedial Project Manager of the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) addressed (42:55-)  the St. Mary’s County MD Commissioners on the presence of per and poly fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station and in the adjacent St. Mary’s County community.

Mr. Steckler’s presentation was an insult to the people of St. Mary’s County because of numerous misstatements of fact. Even the title of his presentation was misleading, “Potential for PFAS in Environmental Media NAS Patuxent River and OLF Webster Field.” Last year, the Naval command was forced to publicly admit to the presence of PFAS on base.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/dog--pony-show.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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