2021 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:24:33 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS, BIOTA: Burlington Air National Guard Base, VT and fish
 
Impact of PFAS Contamination at the Burlington Air National Guard Base
The Winooski River is severely contaminated - and fish are likely poisoned.

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By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
January 28, 2021

The “Salmon Hole”  of the Winooski River near downtown Winooski is a famed Vermont fishing spot known for producing a wide range of fish species just minutes from the center of Burlington.

The river provides a habitat for many species and provides excellent shoreline fishing opportunities. Landlocked Atlantic salmon, steelhead rainbow trout, walleye, smallmouth bass, rock bass, white perch, yellow perch, brown bullhead, bowfin, freshwater drum, fall fish, lake trout, brown trout, redhorse sucker and white sucker are frequently caught.

Are the fish OK to eat? How much PFAS is in each species of fish, and how badly contaminated is the river?  Although the US EPA and the state of Vermont are slow to respond, we know most of the PFAS in our bodies comes from eating seafood. In fact, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) estimates that fish and other seafood account for up to 86% of dietary PFAS exposure in adults.

The fish - and the food grown in fields fertilized with PFAS-laced sewer sludge are making us sick much more so than the drinking water.
Here, I’ll look at the efforts by the state to establish surface water standards for PFAS and I’ll examine the likelihood of widespread PFAS contamination of fish in the Winooski River.  In Part 3 I’ll examine how the contaminated wastewater and sewer sludge are poisoning our food. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/burlington-ang-part-2.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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