[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, COMMUNITIES: "Kept from key meetings, Wurtsmith [MI] experts decry PFAS cleanup secrecy"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kept from key meetings, Wurtsmith experts decry PFAS cleanup secrecy

By Garret Ellison
October 23, 2022
MLIve (MI)

OSCODA, MI — Mark Henry and Bob Delaney know a thing or two about how pollution is moving through the soil and water at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base.

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They are both very comfortable in the weeds of groundwater flow models, contaminant fate and transport, testing methodologies, remediation criteria and other technical aspects of cleanup at the former B-52 bomber base, which sits atop numerous toxic plumes.

But neither Henry nor Delaney — each with decades more hands-on experience at Wurtsmith than any state or federal official now involved — are welcome in the room anymore when decisions are being made about where and how to go about investigating and removing pollution in Oscoda.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mlive.com/news/2022/10/kept-from-key-meetings-wurtsmith-experts-decry-pfas-cleanup-secrecy.html

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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
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)

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