[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Whidbey Island (WA) letter and report

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

To: Honorable Lloyd J. Austin III, U.S. Department of Defense; Honorable Carlos Del Toro, U.S. Navy
From: Richard Abraham
Re: PFAS Contamination on Whidbey Island
Date: November 28, 2022

This open letter and the attached report concern the contamination of people and the environment resulting from Navy’s use PFAS containing fire-fighting foam at Whidbey Naval Air Station and its Outlying Field. We are writing to you because the problems we address are not unlike those being reported at other military sites around the country. 

It’s been six years since the Navy acknowledged responsibility for the PFASs spreading in our sole source aquifer. Yet, we still don’t know how far this contamination has reached or the number of people and places impacted or at risk. We don’t know because the Navy doesn’t know, and as explained in the attached report, hasn’t wanted to know. Too much of what it does know, it doesn’t reveal.

Some steps have been taken to reduce exposures, but not enough. PFASs still leak from Navy property to contaminate public and private drinking water sources, some of which the Navy missed in its limited investigation. These include Public Water Systems with PFAS levels above Washington State Action Levels and EPA’s past and present health advisories.

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For the entire letter and the full report, go to
https://richardabrahamconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/11-28-22-PFAS-Complaint_Report-to-DoD.pdf

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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
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