[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Fort Meade (MD) and the Little Patuxent River

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dangerous levels of PFAS found in the Little Patuxent River at Fort George G. Meade and the National Security Agency in Laurel, Maryland
Nobody gives a damn

By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
November 22, 2021

In the last few months, I’ve tested surface water for PFAS that flows out of the Navy’s Research Lab in Chesapeake Beach, (6,058 parts per trillion, ppt), the Air Force’s Joint Base Andrews, in Clinton, (2,781 ppt), and now, the Army’s Fort George G. Meade in Laurel, (2,306.2 ppt). The Navy, Air Force, and the Army are contaminating Maryland’s rivers with these powerful chemicals.

When the U.S. Constitution was framed it wasn’t intended to be this way. The United States Government does not have the right to poison the waters near me in the St. Mary’s River, the Potomac River, and the Chesapeake Bay - and it does not have the right to contaminate the waters of Laurel, Clinton, and Chesapeake Beach - or in other parts of the state.

The recent test sampled water in the Little Patuxent River that flows past Fort Meade and the NSA. Most of the PFAS (per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances) found in the river is from PFOS (Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid), an extraordinarily lethal variety of the carcinogens. This is frightening, although it still doesn’t mean much to most folks, due to the general lack of media coverage, especially concerning the contamination of surface waters  coming from military installations. This report, for instance, won’t be picked up by the mainstream press. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/dangerous-levels-of-pfas-found-in-the-little-patuxent-river-at-fort-george-g-meade-and-the-national-security-agency-in-laurel-maryland

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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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