[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Wright-Patt [OH] digs giant trench to reduce impact of PFAS on Dayton groundwater"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wright-Patt digs giant trench to reduce impact of PFAS on Dayton groundwater
Project ‘targets’ hazardous materials storage site which released fire suppression foam in 2008 and 2011

By Thomas Gnau
Dayton Daily News (OH)
January 13, 2022

In an effort to stop PFAS contamination before it reaches the Dayton water system, a Army contractor at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has built a 420-foot-long trench near a hazardous materials storage site on the base.

“The constructed trench will intercept impacted groundwater, and a downgradient-collection basin will catch affected surface water so it can be treated before it’s discharged near the Dayton drinking water wellfield,” the base said Thursday.

“We are very supportive of taking early actions like this that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is doing,” Bonnie Buthker, chief of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Southwest District office, said in a statement on the project. ”By installing this trench and collecting the contaminated groundwater and the rainwater from this particular site, they’re preventing that contamination from impacting Dayton’s production wells and also base production wells.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/new-details-base-builds-trench-to-intercept-groundwater-before-it-reaches-dayton-wellfield/RY775OFYNVH4BAXXVZRCF7BOIU/

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Lenny Siegel
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