[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Naval Research Laboratory – Chesapeake Bay Detachment (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

‘Forever chemicals’ from Navy lab flowing into the Chesapeake Bay
PFAS found in nearby streams, wells, fish, oysters

by Timothy Wheeler
Souther Maryland Chronicle
August 30, 2021

David Harris grew up on a farm next door to the Naval Research Laboratory – Chesapeake Bay Detachment. He recalls camping with his scout troop on the 168-acre base overlooking the Bay and drinking water from the small stream that flows from the Navy property onto his family’s farm.

Until recently, much of what went on at the facility just south of Chesapeake Beach, MD, was a mystery to Harris. But at times in his youth, he said, “big plumes of black smoke” rose over the facility. His mother told him their crops sometimes got a dusting of sooty ash.

Now 50 years old and still living next door, Harris worries about the health risks he and his family may have been exposed to from their military neighbor.

The Navy disclosed recently that it has found high levels of so-called “forever chemicals” in soil, groundwater, and streams — not only on the base but beyond its fence line, including in the stream that flows through the Harris farm. Per– and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, also have been detected in a few off-base wells, including one that Harris and his family drank from for years.

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For the entire article, see
https://southernmarylandchronicle.com/2021/08/30/forever-chemicals-from-navy-lab-flowing-into-the-chesapeake-bay/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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