[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Andersen Air Force Base, GU

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Senators get broad support for water resolution; Sen. Perez, “This is a Growing Movement”

by Joe Taitano II
Pacific Daily News (GU)
April 19, 2021

Legislators received testimony in support of Resolution 55, last week, which urges collective efforts to protect Guam’s primary water source, the Northern Lens Aquifer, from impacts related to the military buildup.

The resolution, sponsored by Sen. Sabina Perez, calls attention to potential contamination issues incurred by military activity.

It discusses hazardous materials within Andersen Air Force Base in unlined landfills, drum storage and disposal areas, and other locations.

The base, which occupies 20,000 acres of land above the Northern Lens Aquifer, is currently on the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priority List of sites with known or threatened releases of pollutants and contaminants.



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For the entire article, see
https://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2021/04/19/guam-senators-get-broad-support-water-protection-resolution/7280155002/

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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