[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Blood study near Eielson Air Force Base (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Blood study shows high PFAS levels in Moose Creek residents from well water contamination

By Robyne
KUAC Public Radio (AK)
June 10, 2022

Moose Creek is six miles south of North Pole on the Richardson Highway, and it is beautiful on a sunny June day. Inside the firehouse, federal health experts are discussing finding PFAS chemicals in the blood from local residents.

“The likely source of contamination was the use of firefighting foam from the, from the base that had been used probably as early as the 1980s,” said Lieutenant Commander Brad Goodwin, Deputy Director for ATSDR's Office of Community Health and Hazard Assessment. He’s wearing a uniform. He serves as part of the Public Health Service.

ATSDR is the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. After the Air Force and the state found poison in the aquifer near Eielson Air Force Base, the agency wanted to know how much exposure local residents got.

In 2020, the agency asked the 600 or so residents of Moose Creek, which is on the same aquifer, to give blood and urine samples. 88 people did. A year later, they sent each participant the results -- There were per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in the samples. Some residents say they got sick.

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For the entire article, see
https://fm.kuac.org/local-news/2022-06-10/blood-study-shows-high-pfas-levels-in-moose-creek-residents-from-well-water-contamination

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Lenny Siegel
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