[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Fishing hole contaminated near Burlington Air National Guard Base (VT)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water test shows high levels of PFAS in the Winooski River
Salmon Hole, a popular fishing site near downtown Winooski, is highly contaminated;

Vermont Air National Guard Base is likely suspect.

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
November 13, 2021

Perhaps one day Vermonters will realize the magnitude of this catastrophe. 

Marguerite Adelman and her husband Bob Ackland with Military Poisons Vermont say they found 148.5 parts per trillion (ppt) of PFAS in the waters of the Salmon Hole of the Winooski River, a popular fishing destination in Winooski, Vermont. The contaminated river water contained 40.5 ppt  for the 5 PFAS chemicals regulated in Vermont and 37.8 ppt for PFOS specifically.

The couple used test kids manufactured by Cyclopure, a testing firm  from Skokie, Illinois. Cyclopure received $10 million in funding from the EPA and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop PFAS testing technologies. 

These substances are used in fire-fighting foams and other applications at the Vermont Air National Guard base. The historic burn pit on base is very close to the river, a mile and a half upstream from the Salmon Hole. The Air Force has known of the destructive nature of these chemicals - and has known of ways to treat the chemicals before they are released into the environment for nearly 50 years  and continues to use them and discard them into the environment.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/water-test-shows-high-levels-of-pfas-in-the-winooski-river

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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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