[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Forever chemicals from military bases may be lurking in agricultural water supplies"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Forever chemicals from military bases may be lurking in agricultural water supplies

By Jared Hayes 
Environmental Working Group
OCTOBER 29, 2021

Farmers near military bases may be unknowingly using water contaminated by the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, an EWG analysis finds.

The Department of Defense may have failed to notify some of these farmers, as required by federal law, that toxic plumes of PFAS flowing from bases around the U.S. could be contaminating irrigation water, according to our review of DOD records. Studies show that irrigating crops and watering livestock with PFAS-contaminated water may contaminate the plants and animals.

DOD has alerted 2,100 farms near 95 of these bases that their irrigation water may be contaminated with PFAS. But EWG’s analysis of DOD data finds that 36 Army, Air Force and Navy bases with some of the highest levels of PFAS contamination have not notified nearby farmers about potential pollution of their water.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2021/10/forever-chemicals-military-bases-may-be-lurking-agricultural-water

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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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