[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "contamination at Bangor guard base could be spreading into surrounding area"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFAS contamination at Bangor guard base could be spreading into surrounding area


by Sawyer Loftus
Bangor Daily News (ME)
September 7, 2022

The Maine Air National Guard’s base of operations at Bangor International Airport sits atop groundwater tainted with high levels of toxic, so-called forever chemicals that seeped into it from decades of the guard using firefighting foam on the property.

A report published by the U.S. Air Force last month says there’s a high risk that the contamination from those chemicals, called PFAS, has spread beyond the base property, which could contaminate area water supplies.

But the military branch is in the middle of a long process of figuring out how widespread the contamination is, and how to address it.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/09/07/news/bangor/bangor-air-base-pfas-contamination-joam40zk0w/

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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
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