[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, GLOBAL: "Japan, Okinawa officials to test Marine air station’s treated wastewater for toxic chemicals"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Japan, Okinawa officials to test Marine air station’s treated wastewater for toxic chemicals

BY MATTHEW M. BURKE AND MARI HIGA
STARS AND STRIPES 
JULY 22, 2021

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese officials collected samples of treated wastewater this week at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma as the government weighs a U.S. military request to dispose of the potentially contaminated water through the public wastewater system.

The treated water is stored in underground tanks and may contain traces of the toxic, organic chemicals PFOS and PFOA left over from spilled firefighting foam captured on the air station. 

Monday’s sampling follows local media reports that the Marine Corps had asked Okinawa prefecture to release the treated water into the local system. That water meets Japanese drinking-water guidelines that exceed U.S. standards, according to Marine Corps Installations Pacific.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2021-07-22/marine-corps-okinawa-pfos-pfoa-wastewater-2225062.html

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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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