From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:51:31 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "The military is looking for PFAS pollution at N.C. bases, but cleaning it up will take decades" |
The military is looking for PFAS pollution at N.C. bases, but cleaning it up will take decades By JAY PRICE Blue Ridge Public Radio (NC) February 9, 2022 The Department of Defense is testing hundreds of military sites around the country, including dozens in North Carolina, for contamination from chemicals known by the acronym PFAS. The chemicals are used in a host of products and often called “forever chemicals” because they don’t fully break down in the environment. Some have been linked with health problems including cancer. That’s why on a recent day, at a small Marine Corps installation called Bogue Field on the mainland across from Emerald Isle, a team of contract technicians and geologists were clustered around a truck-sized drilling rig as it bored into the soft, sandy soil. They were drilling wells — 23 of them at carefully-chosen locations dotted around the concrete runways. Soil and water from the wells will be tested for PFAS. … For the entire story, see https://www.bpr.org/post/military-looking-pfas-pollution-nc-bases-cleaning-it-will-take-decades#stream/0 — Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.org P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org) _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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