[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Androscoggin River in Maine is contaminated with PFAS"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Androscoggin River in Maine is contaminated with PFAS

By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
January 3, 2022

Ed Friedman with Friends of Merrymeeting Bay (FOMB) in Bowdoinham, Maine teamed up with local activists and other FOMB members Barbara West and Martha Spiess to test for PFAS in the Androscoggin River and a nearby stream that empties into it.
They found alarming levels of the cancer-causing chemicals.
 
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The environmentalists also collected a sample from a stream between Bath Rd. and Allagash Drive, draining ponds on the former Brunswick Naval Air Station (BNAS) about 2,500 feet from where the stream empties into the Androscoggin. The site is about a mile southeast from the Brunswick Sewer District and just west of Cook’s Corner.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/maine-environmental-group-finds-high-levels-of-pfas-in-the-androscoggin-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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