2022 CPEO Military List Archive

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.


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For the entire story, see
https://www.bpr.org/post/military-looking-pfas-pollution-nc-bases-cleaning-it-will-take-decades#stream/0

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Lenny Siegel
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