[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Pittsburgh International Airport (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

AFTER YEARS OF CONTAMINATION AT PITTSBURGH AIRPORT, NEARBY DRINKING WATER STILL HASN’T BEEN TESTED

By OLIVER MORRISON
Allegheny  Front/90.5 WESA (PA)
JULY 15, 2022

Justin Chromack grew up in his grandmother’s house in Findlay. He spent three decades there, fishing in a nearby stream and drinking water from a private well on the property.

The house is a stone’s throw from a private road at Pittsburgh International Airport. Near the end of that road, there’s a large pit where airport firefighters spent decades putting out practice fires on airplanes. The firefighters used a special foam called AFFF that helps smother dangerous fires with jet fuel.

It turns out that the foam they used was toxic.

The airport has known about the potential contamination on its property for years but hasn’t tested for it or taken steps to protect nearby residents. There are no laws requiring it to take action. Scientists say the airport’s $1.4 billion construction project could make the contamination problem worse.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.alleghenyfront.org/pfas-contamination-pittsburgh-airport-drinking-water-tested/

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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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