[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Red Hill [HI] leaked liquid AFFF concentrate - not firefighting foam"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Red Hill leaked liquid AFFF concentrate - not firefighting foam
Officials downplay severity of the November, 2022 leak

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
December 19, 2022

The Pentagon, EPA, and the Hawaii Department of Health have confused the public regarding the concentration of firefighting liquid released by the Navy at Red Hill on November 29, 2022. 

The three agencies have failed to make it clear to the public that 1,300 gallons of the far more dangerous aqueous film-forming foam concentrate was released, rather than foam. This may explain why the Navy is so hesitant to release footage of the infamous video at Adit 6. The leaking substance looks like water, rather than the foamy material we’ve seen in photos and videos coating hangars and cars in parking lots. AFFF concentrate is made up mostly of water. It appears as a clear  to slightly pale yellow liquid.  Chemguard 3% AFFF concentrate, for instance, is comprised of  90% water.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/red-hill-leaked-liquid-afff-concentrate-not-firefighting-foam

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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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