[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "City, county, National Guard contest responsibility" at Truax Field (WI)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hot potato: PFAS contamination lingers at burn pits as city, county, National Guard contest responsibility

By CHRIS HUBBUCH
Kenosha News (WI)
September 3, 2022

More than four years after the state Department of Natural Resources warned of toxic "forever" chemicals at former firefighter training sites near the Madison airport, city, county and state officials have yet to begin cleanup amid disputes over who is responsible.

In June 2018, the DNR notified Dane County, the city of Madison and the Wisconsin Air National Guard they may be responsible for PFAS contamination at the sites, which were known as “burn pits” used for firefighter training between the 1950s and 1980s.

Tests of shallow groundwater at the sites found two PFAS compounds at levels thousands of times higher than state standards for drinking water or groundwater, and millions of times what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers safe for drinking water. 

…

For the entire article, see
https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/state-and-regional/hot-potato-pfas-contamination-lingers-at-burn-pits-as-city-county-national-guard-contest-responsibility/article_49445a8d-572f-5016-a897-b0babce26020.html

—

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